glowing endorsement of the preeminent chronicler of southern culture, the heir to william faulkner, mr. jeff foxworthy. james? >> mitt romney will be campaigning in alabama and mississippi, with comedian jeff foxworthy by his side. >> m itt is the right guy for the job. >> now if you are's a multimillionaire entertainer, supporting the candidacy of a wealthy financier from massachusetts, you might no longer be a redneck. (laughter) (applause) and folks, i got to tell you, mitt's not just walking the walk he's drawalling the talk. >> morning, y'all. good to be with you. i started right with a biscuit and some cheesy grit, i'll tell you. this is a guy from mississippi and his name is garrett jackson. this guy is with me every single day, takes me everywhere i go. >> four years at ole miss, and so he is now turning me into an, i don't know, an unofficial southerner and i'm learning to say y'all, and i like grits. and thing -- strange things are happening to me. >> yes, strange things are happening to him. because becoming a southerner is a lot like puberty. your voice changes beyond your tess t

mr. jeff canyon, he is president of the houston texas professional firefighters association, represented the international association of firefighters. mr. john holmes, deputy executive director for the port of los angeles and representing the american association of florida authorities. jim mullen, the current president of the emergency managers association and also the direct your of the washington department of emergency management. he is representing the national emergency managers association. and last but certainly not least, mr. michael depalo who is the director and general manager of the port authority trans hudson corporation. thank you for being here this morning. and we look forward to hearing from each of you as you give us your thoughts and opinions on the grants reform that has been introduced. this bill is on effort by this committee last year and how the grant is -- has been set up. but we recognize that there are challenges and we believe that it is also time for reform. if y

mr. speaker. >> i think it is. >> jeff: pensions, republican employees are slashed in one new england town, tony guida tells us rhode island may have been first but it won't be last. >> and remembering-- remembrance in japan one area later. bill whitaker is there as the country reflects on the earthquake and tsunami. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, i'm jeff glor t was awful news from afghanistan coming at such a critical time. and tonight the fallout is just beginning. a stunning and so far inexplicable mass killing by an american soldier inside a small afghan village. that soldier acting alone, u.s. officials say, opened fire early today just outside his base in kandahar province. mandy clark begins our coverage in kabul. >> reporter: the shooting rampage took place here in the village of balandi after an american soldier, an army staff sarge ent walked off his remote base just 500 yards away and went house-to-house killing villagers. 11 people were murdered in the first home, and at least nine children and three women died in the slaughter. th

would like to yield to my good friend from south carolina a great member of the freshman class, mr. jeff duncan mr. duncan: i just got a text message from my wife said my youngest son, he is 11, hit a home run, and i wasn't there. i wasn't there, because we are here serving here in the united states congress trying to make america better for my 11-year-old and for children of this generation and future generations and i believe this particular legislation that was patsed by the last congress should be ruled unconstitutional. and i think my good friend, mr. west, is going to talk about an article he wrote in a washington newspaper today and i thought it was spot on and i don't want to steal his thunder on that, but he taugs about the independent payment advisory board, this committee of 15 members that congress basically divested some of its power over to a 15-member panel. america needs to realize that this panel will be making decisions, health care decisions for you and your family. if you are on medicare, this 15-member panel will be making decisions on what they'll pay for, what trea

mr. schlarb or your counsel? >> good evening. i am speaking on behalf of jeff schlarb. this is a jurisdictional request. nothing has been stated by the request for, mr. hanson, indicating he has satisfied it any of the necessary threshold's in order to justify the right to have this matter proceed. in particular, to grant lee jurisdiction that the board must find that the city intentionally or inadvertently was late in filing the appeal. there is nothing before the board that suggests that. unlike what mr. hansen had stated, exhibit b, which is referenced in the materials are presented to the board, clearly, in december of 2011, he refuses to provide information regarding his tendency and references an attorney who is representing him at this time, robert peterson. mr. hanson is now on his third attorney. while i understand that mr. hanson may be disappointed about the fact that he is residing in an unwarranted unit, my clients are new owners, trying to do the right thing and remove what is not permissible. they have complied with the san francisco rent ordinance and served a proper 60-day notice, provid

mr. cramer. please call me jeff. >> okay, jeff, i'd be delighted to talk to you about what's going on in the apartment in the 40 years i've been in this business fundamentals have they ever been stronger. take it from there, sir. >> well, that's right, jim, household formation is the number one driver of apartment demand. according to the u.s. census bureau, approximately 1.2 million new households are being created each year. approximately 65% of those new households actually buy a home and the inverse, 35% are renters. so we have over 400,000 new renting households entering the market each year. we have new construction permits at historical lows. and as apartment owners, when i heard you correlate what's happening with single family house prices to what's going on in the apartment business, i couldn't help but object. >> well, i think you have every right. that's why we're so thrilled. i got your e-mail, i said we've got to get this guy on. one of the things i'm looking at is a very big macro calling which is gee, houses are cheap. so people are going to buy houses. but a lot of people, from listen

mr. edmunds, i believe it, is jeff ed mubdz, who's the head of the crime writers association in britain, testified. and what did he say? he came forward and he said look i'm a police reporter. he teaches at a police academy as well as writing. i went to work at "news of the world" right after rupert murdoch took it over in the early 1980s. 1980 he started. he said "when i got there they told me you have to bribe the police." he said "well, i don't do that. i don't want to sully my hands with that." they said "well, we have a slush fund for you to use to bribe the police." he says "i'm not doing that." and he says that led to his departure from the newspaper. >> rose: how much of this was do-- if at all-- by other publications in competition with the newscorp publications? >> it's said it was done by a number of tabloids and they did it more frequently in competition with murdoch's newspapers in england became more prevalent. we haven't seen a lot of it proven or charged or arrested made at this point. but the key thing to remember here-- and i think thing that first struck me when i look

mr. nixon hardly ever met a force option that he did not like, you know? in 1969 my colleague, jeff, briefly mentioned the duck hook plan. that was a plan to pressure north vietnam by creating a massive attack. in 1970 when we invaded cambodia, mr. nixon's angst was with the united states pentagon, not with the enemy, because they had not evolved a sufficiently powerful or potent plan. in 1971 when we invaded southern laos, mr. nixon wished to fire the united states commander in vietnam, general creighton abrams, because he was not acting forcefully enough. in 1972 in the beginning of the year when the north vietnamese launched their easter offensive, mr. nixon immediately criticized the air force for not developing sufficiently potent plans for hitting north vietnam. in fact, the christmas bombing that occurred in december 1972 in which we sent 100 b-52 bombers against hanoi was prefigured as early as the middle of april of that year when mr. nixon specifically wrote in memos that he sent to the pentagon, i want a plan thursday morning to hit hanoi with 100 b-52 bombers. mr. nixon

mr. thompson to support my campaign. >> reporter: the mayor is not alone. jeff thompson has hundred many d.c. politicians get elected and is known as a great fundraiser. >> he's done a lot of campaigns in the city. did it for former mayor fenty and williams and has been a prolific fund raiser. >> people should, you know, wonder what the heck is going on. and, really, worry about how influential money is in politics. >> reporter: council member mary chay is very disturbed. this week, she proposed a bill that would ban corporate contributions and what does that mean? >> the people doing work for the government shouldn't contribute money and candidates who are accepting: zeros shift be able to accept money from people who are now doing work for the government or soaking work for the government. >> reporter: and this ban would include people like jeff thompson because his company has a huge contract with the city. council member chay said it's a perfect example of what needs to change. >> that pay-to-play business, you know, that has to be finished. >> reporter: all right, it's important to point

mr. panetta and senator jeff sessions. >> we spend our time worrying about the u.n., the arab league, nato, in my opinion, worrying about the elected representatives of the united states. now, as you go forward will you consult with the united states congress, and do you think that you can act without congress to initiate a no-fly zone in syria? without congressional approval? >> you know, again, our goal would be to seek international permission, and we would, we would come to the congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this whether or not we would want to get permission from the congress -- >> i'm really baffled by the idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the united states military to be deployed in combat. i don't believe it's close to being correct. they provide no legal authority. the only legal authority that's required to deploy the united states military is of the congress and the president and the law and the constitution. >> let me just for the record be clear again, senator, so there's no misunderstanding. when it comes to the

. >> when it comes to well known fundraiser jeff thompson whose home and office were raided a few weeks ago, mr. grey has said before thompson helped his campaign raise money thompson has also helped many other city leaders do the same but mayor grey said he never saw money orders from thompson. >> i really am not able to talk about those matt, first of all because i haven't seen them, you know my campaign finance was handled by others as everybody's campaign is, so, it is an ongoing investigation so, we want the investigation to play out. >> all right it is important to point out the mayor and councilmember ches campaigns have not received these most recent subpoenas it appears che has plenty of support for this money order bill if it clears a vote tomorrow, it will be sent to committee, for public input she hopes to have it in place by november 11th cycle. >> former montgomery county police officer speaking out tonight after a drug conspiracy investigation, turned her life upside down, she was arrested last year, accused of using police powers to help her boyfriend in a drug trafficking busin

. >> do you think, jeff toobin, that mr. katsas' optimism is merited. a lot. here's a little bit of what the justice said. >> tell me if i'm wrong about this. i thought a major, major point of your argument was that the people who don't participate in this market are making it more expensive for the people who do. it's not your free choice just to do something for yourself. what you do is going to affect others, affect them in major way. >> you could hear giggling almost behind what she's saying. she's sort of advising the solicitor general. i think the point you're trying to argue is this point. let me hand it to you, sir. >> she wasn't the only liberal justice doing this. steve breyer at one point took over the argument for the obama administration. i mean there was clear frustration on the liberal side with the job that the solicitor general was doing. i think greg is right. he should be optimistic. we don't know for sure based on questioning. we have followed the justices for a long time. the days when the justices used to sort of play devil's advoc

mr. obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bob orr joins us from washington with more on this, bob, good evening. >> good evening, jeff, president obama promised today when the chips are down he has israel's back. but in offering support for israel's security, he also tried to tamp down enthusiasm for potential military strikes against iran's nuclear facilities. >> already there's too much loose talk of war. >> reporter: in speaking to the pro-israel lobby aipac president obama walked a delicate line. he pledged the u.s. will stand with israel, if force is ultimately needed to keep iran from building nuclear bombs. >> iran's leaders should have no doubt about the resolve of the united states. i have said that when it comes to preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon, i will take no options off the table. and i mean what i say. >> reporter: but he argued with sanctions fighting hard and crippling iran's economy it is not yet time for war. >> now is not the time for bluster. now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in. >> it's the same message the president is expected to deliver tomorrow in a meeting with israeli p

mr. chairman. firstly, let me just say, i was proud to join with my colleague jeff duncan to introduce hr-3783. the countering iran, the western hemisphere act which i am pleased to say was marked up and passed in the foreign affairs committee earlier this month. the legislation would call for the state department to investigate hezbollah's presence in the western hemisphere and create a long-term comprehensive strategy for keeping our communities and our nation safe. the purpose of this legislation or the inspiration came from hearings in this very committee where expert witnesses had informed our committee that hezbollah has a presence in the 20-country region of latin america, but also in 15 american cities, as well as four canadian cities. we were also told in subsequent testimony that we shouldn't be all that concerned about that presence because that presence was their activities were limited to fund-raising. well, that's not comforting. and i think where there is a presence, there is an intent and there is a severe threat. we all know hezbollah is a terror organization. they are committe

senator jeff sessions asking defense secretary leon panetta several times about mr.anetta's suggestion that the united states somehow needs international permission before it might take military action in syria. listen to this. >> we spend our time worrying about the u.n., the arab league and nato and too little time worrying about the elected representatives of the united states. as you go forward will you consult with the united states congress and do you think you can act without congress to initiate a no-fly zone in syria without congressional approval? >> our goal would be to seek international permission and we co-would come before you and determine how best to approach this, whether we would want to get permission from the congress -- >> i'm baffled by the idea somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the united states military to be deployed in combat. i don't believe it's close to being correct. they provide no legal authority. the only legal authority that's required to deploy the united states military is the congress and the president

mr. thompson to support my campaign. >> the mayor is not alone. jeff thompson has helped many d.c.iticians get elected. >> he has done it for lots of campaigns in the city. did it for former mayor fenty and williams. he has been a prolific fund raiser. >> people should wonder what the heck is going on and really worry about how influential money is in politics. >> reporter: councilmember mary cheh says she is very disturbed. this week, show proposed a bill that would ban corporate contributions and what does that mean? >> people who are doing work for the government shouldn't contribute money and candidates who are accepting contributions shouldn't be able to accept money from people who are either now doing work for the government or seeking work for the government. >> reporter: this ban would include people like jeff thompson because his company has a huge contract with the city. councilmember cheh says it is a perfect example of what needs to change. >> that pay to play business, you know, that has to be finished. >> reporter: matt ackland, fox 5 news. >> thompson has not been a

. >> reporter: when it comes to well known fundraiser jeff thompson whose home and office were raided a few weeks ago, mr. gray has said before thompson helped his campaign raise money. thompson has also helped many other city leaders do the same, but mayor gray said he never saw money orders from thompson. >> i'm really not able to talk about those, matt, first of all, because i haven't seen him. my campaign finance was handled by others as everybody's campaign is. so there's an ongoing investigation. so we want the investigation to play out. >> reporter: matt ackland, fox 5 news. >> neither the mayor nor council member cheh's campaign received those most recent subpoenas. cheh appears to have plenty of support for this money order bill. if it clears the vote tomorrow, it will be sent to committee for public input. >>> maryland's own senator barbara mikulski is now the longest serving congresswoman in u.s. history breaking the record saturday representing maryland on capitol hill more than 35 years. mikulski served 10 years in the house before becoming a senator in '86. when she entered the rates, there

i would have to sit down with jeff maddox and asked him to tell me like a 4-year-old. it is a fire code issue. i am not sure. >> mr. sanchez, mr. duffy, you are up. >> i thought there were going to do a duet. commissioner hillis: you never know. >> there we go. mr. boscovich, i do not know. i will talk to him tomorrow. i let him away early. i was a little bit confused when i saw the brief in regards to the property line. there is a complaint that it complied with the dbi about 2323 hyde st. about these windows and the legality of them. i went to look at the complaint and tried to get myself appointed for today. there is something going on with regards to this easement and the area because the property line is not really shown on the plans. i believe that has gone through some sort of core process at this time. it is the first phase of the work. i do not know whether the building code would require this wall in this location. because this is the first part of the permit. i do not see the rest of the permit. there is not enough information for me to say that. if anyone has any questions, -- president garcia: why was

i want to bring in back jeff o toobin and kate baldwin. mr.re you left off. >> real quick on paul clement's answer. it's no surprise he did not prognosticate the outcome of the case. they never do. i actually interviewed him a couple of weeks ago leading into this case and he said that he never calls it a "w" when he leaves the courtroom because the justices can and do often surprise us. because oral arguments, they are not the final word. the real work now begins now in the next few days, the justices will go behind closed doors with only each other and vote on these four issues separately. and then they will begin the long and arduous and important task of writing their final opinion. so very interesting. just a little insight into the attorneys who speak before the supreme court. but on the medicaid issue, the reason why this has come up, it comes down to something that is a big concern for not only the supreme court, but for every american. the issue of state's rights versus federal authority. that's what the medicaid expansion comes down