thank you. >> mr. brown, your full name, please. >> james gordon brown. >> you kindly provided us with a witness statement which is dated the 30th of may, 2012. it has the standard statement of truth, and you've signed it. is this your formal evidence to our inquiry? >> yes, it is. >> mr. brown, thank you very much. for the work that's, obviously, gone into the inquiry. i'm sorry that our start this morning's been delayed. >> it's fine by me, thank you very much. >> mr. brown, may we start your general comments which i'm going to ask you to elaborate, if i may? on the bottom of the third page of your statement which is our page 14207, you refer to securing the right balance between the freedoms of the media and the privacy of the citizen. now, implicit in that is the premise that there is an imbalance at present. but how would you rectify the imbalance without impersonal injurying on the freedoms of the media? >> well, i think the starting point of all this has been the complaint that has been made by a fami

brooks of the shift of support from labor and the person fiction of mr. brown to the conservatives in the person fiction of mr. cameron? >> i don't think i was actually aware that the shift was going to occur until it occurred. obviously there was a debate going on and obviously i hoped that news international would carry on supporting the labor government, but i don't think that i actually knew of the decision, as it were. >> so there was no discussion between you and mrs. brooks which would have gave you a prior indication that it might occur, is that it? >> certainly it was pretty obvious there was a strong debate going on within the organization as to what they were going to do. as i say, my position was clear and it was clear throughout that i wanted them to carry on supporting the labor government. >> were there any discussions to the reasons for the shift or not? >> i mean i think it had to do with basic policy questions and, yeah, this was a conversation that was pretty active within political circles as well, frankly. so i don't -- there was no -- i ca

>> let mr. brown respond. the position is, mr. brown, the system permits for participants to put questions through counsel. mr. jay has said several times, i have been asked to ask this question. if he declines to put the question, then core participants are in touch to ask me for permission to ask the question. i think i know what is coming, but i do not think -- >> i do not know what is coming but i'm happy to question. >> my name is robert davis, i appear for news international. i think you're probably familiar with the spirit is behind tab 8 of your bundle. that is a transcript of the evidence that lord mendelssohn gave. >> what day is that referring to? >> day 74. >> what day is mr. mandelson referring to? >> he was asked about whether or not there was a call between mr. murdoch and you shortly after the sun had announced that it was no longer going to support the labor party on the 30th of september 2009. this is day 74. in the afternoon. >> i find this very difficult to read because of the light type. perhaps you can read th

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to speak about something very serious. that issue is about sexual assault in the military. in support of the shaheen amendment which i cosponsored in the senate armed services committee markup, today i wrote a letter to house majority leadership expressing my concern for this issue and asking that it be addressed immediately. the senate armed services committee recently considered and passed the national defense authorization act for f.y. 2013, and it awaits full consideration of the senate. as we all know, our troops need the tools and resources to complete their mission. it's imperative that it gets brought up right away. as a member of the committee, i join with members of both sides of the aisle in supporting this amendment which would ensure that women who serve in our armed forces and their families are provided access to abortion services in cases of rape or incest. sadly, sexual assault of women service members has been recently exposed as far more prevalent than

mr. brown, thank you very much. for the work that has obviously gone into the inquiry. i am sorry for the delay. >> fine by me, thank you very much. >> your general comments, which i will ask you to elaborate, if i may, on the first day of it -- first page of your statement. you referred to securing the right balance between the freedoms of the media and the privacy of the citizens. there's a premise that there is an imbalance at private -- at present. >> i think the starting point of all this has been the complaint that has been made. they would support the freedom of press, but they are worried about the threat that was made to their privacy as individuals. who will guard the guardians? that is a question that was wanted to address. i would say, who would fit -- who would defend the defenseless? we have to regions competing with each other -- two regions competing with each other. attempts to look at some of the issues. i would still hold the view that, maybe it came for my religious upbringi

mr. brown: certainly. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of the remarks of the senator from ohio that i be recognized as if in morning business for such time as i shall consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i am pleased to work with senator inhofe on this. thank you, madam president. 25 days the cost of attending college, a trade school, a university, a two-year community college will increase for some 380,000 students in my state of ohio. it's because without congressional action, something we have tried -- which we have tried to fix repeatedly on the floor of the united states senate, without congressional action, interest rates for stafford loans are scheduled to double on july 1. now, this was done five years ago bipartisanly that we were able to do this. president bush signed legislation for a democratic congress, democratic house, democratic senate to freeze interest rates on stafford subsidized loans for american college student

. >> mr. brown is upset. mr. brown is embarrassed. mr. brown is agonizing over what his conduct has resulted in. so no, it's not fair to say he's not upset at all. he's very upset. >> brian, it's important to point out that even with these loans, these issues that he had with this bank fraud, the bank in question never lost any money because the payments were always made on the home and on the boat. we should tell you that september is when kwame brown will be back in court both in federal court and superior court. that is when he will be sentenced. we're going to go a few blocks away to the u.s. attorney's office this afternoon. the u.s. attorney had a press conference and fox 5's paul wagner was there. paul. >> reporter: we can talk about what ron, the u.s. attorney had to say about what time kwame brown would have to say. he did plead guilty. when you plead guilty, you are looking at some prison time. however, there would be a presentence report and he wouldn't speculate on what time kwame brown might get. he did say that he doesn't ant

. >> ask you now, mr. brown, to return now to the issue of special advisors, put to you a number of questions about them. that mr. campbell in a second witness statement, paragraph 64, suggested there was a real problem with a treasury special adviser. and by that he means mr. wheeler and, who is one of your appointments. do you agree with his analysis? >> look, there was rumor, gossip, political advisors, and, lots around and having debates and arguments. the one thing i insisted upon, and this is i think deals with mr. campbell is our political advisors worked to the head of communication it was a civil service. so anything that a big relation to the press they have to report to and through the head of the civil service, the civil servant had documentation and that's how we dealt with these issues. >> there were not -- [inaudible] a systematic perpetrators of selective anonymous briefings. either at your instigation of or with her knowledge? >> no. i wouldn't say that at all. i operated or asked them to operat

>> let mr. brown respond. the position is, mr. brown, the system permits for participants to put questions through counsel. mr. jay has said several times, i have been asked to ask this question. if he declines to put the question, then core participants are in touch to ask me for permission to ask the question. i think i know what is coming, but i do not think -- >> i do not know what is coming but i'm happy to question. >> my name is robert davis, i appear for news international. i think you're probably familiar with the spirit is behind tab 8 of your bundle. that is a transcript of the evidence that lord mendelssohn gave. >> what day is that referring to? >> day 74. >> what day is mr. mendelson referring to? >> he was asked about whether or not there was a call between mr. murdoch and you shortly after the sun had announced that it was no longer going to support the labor party on the 30th of september 2009. this is day 74. in the afternoon. >> i find this very difficult to read because of the light type. perhaps you can read th

i think in the end we did. >> ask you now mr. browncial adviser. and by that he means mr. wheeler and, who is one of your appointments. do you agree with his analysis? >> look, there was rumor gossip, political advisors and lots around and having debates and arguments. the one thing i insisted upon, and this is i think deals with mr. campbell is our political advisors worked to the head of communication it was a civil service. so anything that a big relation to the press they have to report to and through the head of the civil service the civil servant had documentation and that's how we dealt with these issues. >> there were not -- [inaudible] a systematic perpetrators of selective anonymous briefings. either at your instigation of or with her knowledge? >> no. i wouldn't say that at all. i operated or asked them to operate under these rules that they would work to the head of communications it was a civil servant, and he would have to report to me if things were wrong. >> so if they did in told in this behavior, that would be by defi

mr. speaker brown and mr. speaker scott. >> good morning. my name is sharon and i'm vice chair of the district 11 council and a 4 year resident which is located in the heart of district 11. i do not come forward to test by earlier because my neighborhood has never seriously been in danger of being split into another district. but i wanted to take this last opportunity to speak, to publicly thank the task force for not just listening to the public, but to actually hearing all the folks who came to testify. and for your commitment to keeping neighborhoods whole. for you reuniting the other neighborhoods that were split 10 years ago. i also wanted to thank the consultants and kay for all their work in getting the draft maps and the boundaries up on the website so quickly. and lastly i would like to thank any fellow council members who came to testify so passionately but respectfully for their neighborhoods in district 11. so far we have only lost population in those areas we all agreed to sacrifice to keep district 11 whole. it is an honor to s

mr. brooks was close to gordon brown. it wouldn't be perhaps fairer to say that she was close to his wife, that, in fact, she was friendly with tony blair and less well disposed to gordon brown? if i can summarize that? >> i think she was pretty friendly with all of them. i remember some strong arguments when i would be gracing the government and all the works and she would be standing up prit you vigorously for gordon brown. >> when did you sense that mrs. brooks would be disposed to sporting you and your party? approximately when? >> i can't really put a date on it. i think it was -- as i say there was growing picture of disenchantment with the government. the conservative party was, i think getting its act together. looking more like a credible government, and it was a process. he had some strong allies, as it were. i don't want to ruin his career, but i felt that he was someone who thought that labor got it wrong. thought the conservative party was getting its act together. lots of things he didn't agree with me but i

. >> mr. brown, back up, please. >> why are the doors locked? why -- >> whoa. let me move my foot i'll let you close it. >> reporter: chaos in the wilson building as satisfiering locked the doors of kwame brown's office to reporters and citizens. >> the office is not open? all right. thank you. >> reporter: federal prosecutors wednesday filed one felony charge against brown for defrauding industrial bank of thousands of dollars to finance his home and lifestyle including a power boat. brown said just yesterday he had no plans to resign. >> i'm not going to answer any questions regarding an investigation, anything that's currently taking place. >> reporter: first elected in 2004, brown has been under federal investigation for more than a year involving allegations of missing money from his 2008 campaign, and personal finances. again, we are waiting for formal word that d.c. council chairman kwame brown is resigning today from his job. he's facing felony charges that he lied about tens of thousands of dollars of income on home loan documents with industrial bank.

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. the united states constitution entrusts the united states senate with one of our democracy's most important obligations: to -- quote -- "advise and consent" to judicial nominations. yet today almost half of all americans, 133 million citizens of our great country, live in districts or circuits that have a vacancy due to the inaction, the inaction of members of this body. we have an opportunity today to take seriously our responsibility to do something about that and take one significant step by voting to confirm jeffrey helmick to serve as united states district court judge. president obama nominated mr. helmick to serve on the u.s. district court for the northern district of ohio on may 11, 2011. based on a bipartisan commission's recommendation, based on my own judgment, i had no hesitation whatsoever in suggesting jeffrey helmick's name to president obama. let me tell you about our selection process. in 2009 then senator george voinovich and i got a list of ohioans in the legal com

. >> do you think those voters would have elected mr. brown if they had known he had submitted fraudulent bank documents in 2005 and 2007 before the election? this is a man that controlled millions of dollars in the city budget. i think the way to answer that is how would you feel if we left him in office and a greater fraud was perpetrated upon the public down the road? >> the sense of entitlement by these individual has to stop. they are not entitled to that which does not belong to them. they are not entitled to break the law without repercussion. it is instead our citizens who are entitled. they're entitled to expect more from our public officials and we will continue to work to insure they receive the most honest government representation possible. >> in doesn't have any color. it's not a witch hunt. i think a lot of people buy into that because it's an easy excuse probably put out there by the same people that we're looking into, but we prosecute those who violate the law regardless of race or sex or anything else. >> and the prosecutors

. >> possibly slight danger there, mr. brown, strength away from speed is i want to make a point, mr. jay. you suggested that somehow relations with "the sun" newspaper, with mr. murdoch had broke down because he decided he wanted to support the conservative party. i want to suggest to you that the commercial interest of news international were very clear long before that. and we have support from the conservative party. >> now move up the general comments now, mr. brown, onto your own experience, which is page 1414, page eight on the internal numbering of your statement. and can i go back to 2006, and the story in relation to your youngest son in "the sun" newspaper. may we start off, please, by establishing the facts as you know them to be in relation to the story, and in particular, do you know "the sun" newspaper's source for that story? >> this is for difficult for me if i may say so, because i've never chosen and never wanted my son or my son and my daughter ever to have been across the media. and i do think there was an i

." >> it's a very sad day for mr. brown, for us on the council and for the people in the district. >> is charged is the latest in wrongdoing involving city leaders in the nation's capital. >>council members say they plan to keep moving forward. but the most important thing is to assure everyone that our city will continue to move forward. >> residents say they are tired of problems. >> feels we have no say in what goes on in your own government. >> councilwoman mary che is going to be acting chair at least for the next week. then she will call a meeting to have an election for an interim chair. brown will head to federal court sometime tomorrow. brianne carter reporting, abc 7 news. >> brown's resignation is the latest in a series of problems within the d.c. government and the d.c. council. earlier this year, former councilman harry thomas jr. was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling city funds intended for a youth soccer program. two campaign aides to d.c. mayor vincent gray, thomas gore and howard brooks, ple

. >> reporter: mrs. brown says she no longer has faith in the department and wants federal authorities to step in. the state's attorney issue as statement saying although it can be frustrating to all involved, thorough investigations take time to do the job prommerly we cannot rush the process. >> that's not enough for me. now this is where i draw the line. >> reporter: police say there's no timetable for the investigation, the officer is on paid routine administrative leave. >> this is a very serious matter, and it's not something that can be turned around overnight. >> reporter: my son has been put to rest and yet, nothings done. >> reporter: mrs. brown says the chief did call her to give her condolences today. police will be reviewing the investigation before it goes to an attorney. mike hellgren, wjz news. >> there's been no comment from the order of police nor his attorney. >>> a fire intentionally set inside of anne arundel coáf county. kai jackson has the details. >> reporter: a fire was set at the anne

. >> we discovered that mr. brown had falsified documents for a loan. at that point, we had to act upon it. >> brown paid off with the house loan and was current on the boat loan. but it was still fraud. >> i want to apologize from the bottom of my heart to all those i have let down. for the people of this great city. >> he left federal court and went to d.c. court and pled guilty to violating laws on paying campaign workers. some residents questioned the prosecution appeared >> how many people live on applications to look bigger than they really are? >> but it is illegal. >> but how many people get caught? most of the time, the paper work is gone and people get the money and they pay it back. >> this is just the latest scandal to hit the d.c. government. earlier in the project earlier in the year, harry thomas, jr. was -- earlier in the year, harry thomas, jr. was convicted for bustling. investigators released a new sketch this week that they hope will lead to the killer of a virginia tech student. it is similar to be sketched the fbi released in 2005 o

he spoke to mrs. brown today and said, "i pledge to her a full and fair investigation." the attorneys as to do the job properly they cannot wrest -- rush the process. >> it's official. mayor stephanie rawlings blake's budget has passed. it took a final vote approving the plan in a 9-6 decision to solidify closure of multiple city fire station been shut down several recreation centers on july 1st. >> to have to understand until the economy turns around that something has to go. we're not raising property taxes. unless the applicant understand that they need have the id administration be willing to put cuts in. >> than in fighting to come up with a different plan but the council president was unsuccessful. >> turning up the heat on o'malley. during a rally inside the capitol building, labor interests demanded a special session to expanded gaming in the state. they also send their remember a strongly worded letter. 11 news reporter david collins is following developments and joins us now from the state house. >> taking a jab at the governor's economic policy fighting job lo

. >> it is a very sad day comment for mr. brown. a sad day for the people in the district. people are saying just that tonight. as what comes next, she active share of the council. wednesday, she will call a to elect a different person. brown, he has a court date on friday. we are live tonight in northwest d.c. >> kwame browns resignation is a litany ofn the d.c. government. harry thomas jr. was sentenced forhree years in prison embezzling city funds intended for a soccer program. pleadedaign aides charges. >> we are following another breaking story tonight. is a of a much lighter in nature. this. look at we are live under -- over the arundel mall. hundreds of people lined up around the mall to get their go inside the casino. it is the closest to the d.c. metro area. --ight's opening comes after we are inside the casino right now. we will have a live report in just a few minutes. we are on your side with an districttion into the thehow they are cashing in on speed and red light camera tickets. d.c. police unveiled 17 new cameras today, including the street bridge and the ni

after mr. brown resigned there were inevitably hallway conversations and people talking and it seemed to me a consensus had formed around phil mendelson. what people have to understand is that the charter, the home rule charter, says that we must pick the acting chair and the acting chair pro tem from among the four at large members. so there's a very limited pool here. >> speaking of at large members as we saw in matt's story there, councilman vincent orange released a press release today saying he opposes this resolution saying it's not only bad for the council but for the city, the people that you guys represent in the city of washington d.c. what's your response to that? >> well, he's obviously vying for the spot, so he would take a position in opposition to what's being proposed. he'll have too make plain what his argument is. i think choosing mr. mendelson now as chair is precisely the right thing. >> let me ask you this. clearly we know that councilman orange would like to have that seat and h

[applause] mr. brown, they all want a picture with you, too. we do not want you sitting down. if >> thank you so much. this is everyone. for our celebration, we will have a performance by our stand, and i would invite everyone to stay and enjoy the reception i hope to see all of you and now throughout the week as we celebrate san francisco cried. -- san francisco pride. one moment. i am sorry. a brief moment. >> it ain't over. it just started. we would love to hear frown some of our city officials. supervisors got wiener, please come up. and whac>> happy pride. they we are not done yet. we have some more program. and i just want to acknowledge our amazing imperial court. i just want to say our community is very diverse, and a lot of times we have disagreements, and it can be raucous at times, but there is one time of year when we all come together in june, because we are one who community, and we have to be there for each other, so we will always do that. happy pride, everyone. >> i would like to welcome the treasurer. >> as the treasury tax collector, we bring in the revenue

mr. brown: mr. president, congress is providing an average of $400 million the farm bill to the rural development title, the bill we're considering today, considers no development at all. my amendment funds fiscal development programs, a portion of the backlog of waste water infrastructure projects and will help bring a new generation of the farmers into agriculture. the presiding officer: order, please. mr. brown: mr. president, as a member of the agriculture committee, i know how important it is that this amendment maintains our committee's commitment to save at least $23 billion in the farm bill. i yield the rest of my time to chairwoman stabenow. ms. stabenow: mr. president, let me just add my strong support for the amendment. we have reformed this title on rural development. we have eliminated 16 different authorizations, tightened it up. the amendment stays within our parameters of $23 billion in deficit reduction. it affects every small town and community across america who count on rural dev

. >> mr. brown any comment? >> kwame brown, first elected in 2004 to d.c. council had been under investigation for more than a year. prosecutors continue to look into his 2008 council campaign and hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted for. mayor vincent gray, under his own separate criminal investigation for his 2010 campaign for mayor reacted to the kwame brown charge. >> well, i am stunned. i'm shocked. and disappointed. i'm saddened. >> the d.c. council will convene nexts when day to name temporary chairman to replace brown. jim. >> okay. more than a year and what they come up with is something having to do with his personal finances. its there more to this that we should be aware snuff. >> people should know this is a plea agreement, agreed to plea to this. had he not agreed there would be many more charges to charge him with and possibly his wife might be charged. he took the best route to getting this over and done with. rather than facing many more charges and perhaps a long trial. >> how it concerns kwame brown this investigation seems to be

board of ethics and also a referral from mr. brown himself. >>> ronald, the person i mentioned from the fbi said today he was astounded when he was watching kwame brown on our set, on our air one night after harry thomas was charged. he was astounded at some of the things he was saying. we'll play some of that tonight at 6:00 and some of what he had to say about that. back to you. >>> thank you, paul. >> veteran criminal attorney joined us now. the state's attorney says they started their investigation into the campaign finance charges involving kwame brown. then discovered the bank fraud charges. why was brown brought up on a felony charge for the bank fraud in a federal court, a misdemeanor charge on the campaign finance issues in a local court? >> one of the things that we often see happen in investigations is that they start in one direction and things are developed and things come up that were not expected and they come to the attention of the authorities, they don't turn a blind's eye to them. in this case, it appears when they

it is a sad day for mr. brown and for the council and for the people in the district of. >> next, mary cheh is the acting chair of the d.c. council for now, but not for long. she plans to call a meeting on wednesday to elect a new interim chairman of the d.c. council. that person will likely serve until november. that is when voters should get their chance to elect a new chairman the. as for kwame brown, he has a court date set for tomorrow. in northwest, tom roussey reporting. >> kwame brown's resignation is the latest in a series of problems in d.c. government. earlier this year former councilman harry thomas jr. was sentenced to prison prison for embezzling city funds intended for a youth soccer program. two campaign aides to d.c. mayor vincent gray pleaded guilty to charges tied to the 2010 mayoral campaign. >> despite the turmoil surrounding brown's resignation it will be business as usual today at the wilson building. the panel will look at what the d.c. fire and ems department is doing to reduce overtime co

. >> reporter: mrs. brown says she no longer has faith in the department and wants federal authorities to step in. the state's attorney issued a statement saying although it can be frustrating to all involved, thorough investigations take time to do the job properly, we cannot rush the process. >> that is not enough for me, now this is where i draw the line. >> reporter: police say there's no timetable for the investigation, the officer is on paid routine administrative leave. the police chief did call her -- brown's mom says the police chief did call her to offer his condolences. >> there's been no comment from the fraternal of police. >>> a massive brush fire that started this weekend is still smoldering in the eastern shore. derek valcourt is in queen anne's county with more on the destructive ken island's fire and the people that lived through it. >> reporter: firefighters intentionally burning off what's left of brush on kent island where a six alarm fire burned on sunday. neighbors woke to the smell of s

let's take a look at some video of mr. brown and the last days of his council reign. 41-year-old brown will plead guilty to falsifying bank documents in order to secure a loan to buy a luxury boat and a new charge, brown faces a misdemeanor campaign finance violation. an audit found $239,000 had been transferred to brown's brother's now defunct consulting firm. the campaign also failed to register 60 grand that his brother controlled. despite the ongoing investigation and turmoil in the council, members believe they can move beyond this. here's what marion barry had to say. >> i can guarantee you that council will be stronger than ever before, and the acting chair will be stronger than ever before. and i'm so glad this is behind us now and it is, that we can now focus on the real work of government. >> reporter: however, they do have to answer to the residents of the city, many who are shocked, disappointed and feel betrayed by the ongoing corruption scandals that are now blanketing several members of the council and an ongoing

were you aware that mr. brown had tounge the cabinet secretary seeking inquiry following the publication of that piece? >> the prime minister? i think yeah, i must have been aware of it. i must have, aware of it. i definitely blame -- let me refigure my memory. i knew after the election he sent me something in the bundle after this. he discussed having a publishing inquiry before the election as i understand it. i believe i found it after that. i can't recall having conversations about it before the election. i remember his speech when he talked about the the inquiry. that was july. i couldn't have known about it. i didn't know if it was public at the time. was it public at the time? >> it wasn't public at the time, but the consideration given to the public inquiry before the election took place in march of 2010, and it was involved and . >> which election are we talking about mr. or the general election. >> i think he was talking about the election. i think we were talking about that event. just a sound about sub

mr. brown's surgeon. >> men are often diagnosed with larger lesions in later stages than women because they're not getting examined. >> reporter: in william's case, they watched the lump in his breast for nearly 12 years. >> i started feeling a sensation and it got somewhat larger. i just told him, we're going to have to do something soon. >> reporter: luckily william's tumor was very slow growing. >> know lumps or bumps. you look great. >> reporter: he had a mastectomy. his lymphs nodes were clear and his cancer was receptive positive and he's on tamoxifen. giving william brown a lot more time to enjoy life. >> job well done. >> job well done. >> if you'd like to see that story again, go to our website wusa9.com. and click on morning show. and to keep yourself and your buddy in check. you can text buddy check 9 to 25543 for a monthly alert. on a personal note, i've had seven days of radiation. i'm feeling fine. i'm getting through it. howward has the forecast in just a bit. >>> it's a beautiful afternoon. the allergens have come up since yesterday. we have the tree pollen which has gone moder

i'm very sbreeintrigued with wh you're doing mr. brown and i wonder the system is with targets and gets you started out fee for service and savings are then rebated back to the participants and you set a target at the outset, as i understand it? >> yes. >> so the question -- one question i have is how do you set that target and then what lessons does that have for the target that's in sgr? because in each case, there's a target. once set by yourselves. 6 and you said you ask for a waiver to apply your approach. your medicare payment system. i just -- it would be helpful, to me anyway, if you could tell us the degree to which you think sgr can be modified to follow some of your practices or what have you learned that could help us decide what we're going to do about sgr. >> let me start with a description of the way we do it. which is very similar to the way premiums are established. so think of it this way, you have a particular panel as i described, let's say 10 doctors, 10 primaries. the question is, how many patients do those primaries

i serve alongside mr. brown on council and never imagined something like this he said. colleagues have these remarks. >> i don't have a comment at this time. i'm just glad our city is still moving forward in the right direction. >> today we met with the chairman and kwame brown said he would have a statement later teed or tomorrow about his intentions. >> i talked to some council members in that meeting. kwame brown told them behind closed doors he's resigning effective close of business today. it was an emotional meeting for some i'm told. council member mary cheh will open a meeting wednesday for the council to vote on the replacement. vincent orange, phil mendelson, both democrat at large members are expected to compete for the job to replace kwame brown. >> can you remember a time where this council has had this many distractions? >> there's never been a time in the city's history we've had this many distractions and it's not over. there's still that major investigation hanging over the city like a wet blanket of the mayor, his administration and their campaign. all

. >> bruce, in this plea deal, we're assuming that mr. brown is going to have to serve time. how much do you think? >> reporter: well, it might come as a surprise you to. i don't think he's going to serve any time. i've been talking to a lot of people close to this case. with the federal guidelines, he's looking at perhaps zero to six months but my sources say that it might even be part of the plea agreement that chairman kwame brown serves no time. it might be enough. it might have been enough for prosecutors just to get him out of office. we've noun seen they've done -- we've now seen they've done that. >> bruce johnson is continuing to follow the story. we'll have the latest information beginning on 9news now at 5:00 and our website wusa9.com. thank you, bruce. >>> well, d.c. residents have seen a lot of political corruption this year. former council member harry thomas, jr. stepped down from office in january. and then he pleaded guilty to charges that he sold money -- he stole money from the city. earlier this month, 2010 campaign aides to mayor vincent gray pleaded guil

were you aware that mr. brown had tounge the cabinet secretary seeking inquiry following the publication of that piece? >> the prime minister? i think yeah, i must have been aware of it. i must have, aware of it. i definitely blame -- let me refigure my memory. i knew after the election he sent me something in the bundle after this. he discussed having a publishing inquiry before the election as i understand it. i believe i found it after that. i can't recall having conversations about it before the election. i remember his speech when he talked about the the inquiry. that was july. i couldn't have known about it. i didn't know if it was public at the time. was it public at the time? >> it wasn't public at the time, but the consideration given to the public inquiry before the election took place in march of 2010, and it was involved and . >> which election are we talking about mr. or the general election. >> i think he was talking about the election. i think we were talking about that event. just a sound about sub

you think those voters would have elected mr. brown if they had known he had submitted fraudulent bank documents in 2005 and 2007 before the election? prosecutors are claiming inside superior court today kwame brown allowed his brother chay brown who did not hold an official campaign position to secretly set up two bank accounts at industrial bank of washington. prosecutors say chay brown issued five checks, signed them ranging from $1,500 to $5,000. he cashed those checks at the bank and disbursed the money to campaign workers. it's all illegal. >> i am guilty of knowing that poll workers and others received more than $50 in cash payment for doing campaign work. that is and has been done in this city for years. i believe i'm the on one, only candidate that's ever been charged with a misdemeanor. >> kind of sounds like he's saying everything was doing it. prosecutors disagree and say one of those checks was for $1,500 signed and cashed about a year after the campaign by chay brown. kwame brown is scheduled for sentencing june 20th, bro

. >> do you think those voters would have elected mr. brown if they had known he had submitted fraudulent bank documents in 2005 and 2007 before the election? this is a man that controlled millions of dollars in the city budget. i think the way to answer that is how would you feel if we left him in office and then a greater fraud was perpetrated upon the public down the road? >> the sense of entitlement by these individuals has to stop. they are the entitled to that which does not belong to them. they are not entitled to break the law without repercussion. >> and the fbi says it is not done looking into cases of corruption here in the nation's capital. >>> culpeper police officer daniel harmon-wright pleaded not guilty today to murder and three other related counts. he's can also granted a $1,000 bond and newly -- he's also granted a $1,000 bond and newly released court records show harmon-wright used unnecessary force on another family shortly before he shot and killed an unarmed woman. tonight only on 9 a young man talks about being threaten

hello mr brown welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all how was it seen here in germany that mr putin chose berlin as his first destination in europe first foreign destination outside the post have its place now we have two. schools of thought in germany concerning russia one is very interesting ethic about russia this is a business community and the into the aesthetic lee of course welcomed mr putin here in germany and they understand that for mr putin they can do business with russia and as long as he's in power they will face stability on the russian market and this simply see no alternative to him and can't imagine any real alternative for him in the next six years there's another small school of thought that of i would say moralists liberals here in germany who would rather like to conduct policy oriented and focused solely on values towards russia and to they think that russia is departing from democracy they think that russia is turning towards tele tarion system and they didn't welcome putting it all so so so the reaction was mixed but german

story which gordon brown denies, but it's obviously an area where the lawyer who cross questioned mr. brown will want to probe him on. >> and also, naomi, we are going to hear from george osborne. this is going to be interesting in terms of his links with the culture secretary here and the bskyb bid. quite a lot of detail, but george osborne is interesting. he's seen as someone who doesn't come out in public unless he really needs to. >> that's right. george osborne is not only chancellor, but also the government strategist. he does have a finger in many of the pies of government, and his name and text messages have arisen during this inquiry to do with that bskyb bid, which is now proving to be a very controversial area for this inquiry. original originally george osborne wasn't intending to give evidence to this inquiry, but precisely because his name keeps cropping up, they've actually decided to call him. so this afternoon, he, too, will be giving testimony as to what went on when the murdoch entire was trying to bid for the satellite broadcaster, bskyb. >> key figure in the government,

mrs. brooks was close to gordon brown. his wife, but, in fact, she was very friendly with tony blair and less well disposed to gordon brown? >> i think she was pretty friendly with all of them. i remember some strong arguments when i would be berating the government, and she would be standing up pretty vigorously for gordon grown. brown. >> when did you sense that mrs. brooks would be disposed to supporting you and your party, approximately when? >> i can't really put a date on it. i think the as i say, there was a growing picture of disenchantment with the government. the conservative party was i think, getting its act together looking more like a credible government, and it was a process. we had some strong allies as it were. i don't want to ruin his career, but kavanaugh on "the sun," i felt he was someone, you know, who thought that labour government was getting it wrong, lots of things he didn't agree with about what i was going, but i always felt he was a potential ally for pointing out that "sun" readers were moving

did you feel, looking at this time, but the government, perhaps in particular mr. brown, was assessed with the news in the press it or not? -- was obsessed with the news in the press or not? >> i think the late philip gould coined the phrase "the permanent campaign. i think it was his phrase. the modern politics is the permanent campaign. 247 media -- 24/7 media, i think in a way, makes the permanent campaign part of the dna. >> moving forward into the time when you were in the opposition. the pc en "the new york times," which has attracted a lot of attention in this inquiry came not on september 1, 2010, 25 days before he became the leader of the opposition. >> yes. >> were you aware that mr. brown had written to the cabinet secretary seeking an inquiry following the publication of that piece? >> this was after he stopped being the prime minister? >> yes. >> i think -- i must have been aware of it. >> i knew after the election -- and he sent me something in the bundle about this -- but i was pretty sure after the election that mr. brown had made a public inquiry after t

mr. brown's point that reporting is his type of -- sensation lies. he said politicians don't simply make errors of judgment. their motives are always put into question. did you associate yourself as a matter of generality with that point or not? >> i think there are occasions when that can happen. as i've said, it links back to this thing about newspapers being under pressure to find something special and differ and go for impact and sometimes that can mean questioning motives. so you do -- i ought to make this sound like sort complainin- of course, we should have a vigorous press and should give us a good going over and they do, but, you know, there's bound to be a certain amount of that. the way i put it, the volume log is sometimes just in term really high in our press, and i'm not sure sometimes that does anyone any favors. >> the volume nob is turned too high and a constant of that, motive is always impugned. if you turn it down lower and examine human nature as it is, usually, goes out of error of judgment, mistakes are made or not have vehemen

personal support for you in the context of what she describes as deepening hostility between you and mr. brown. >> i've read that. she was pretty cautious in what she said of gordon brown and support of them taking over. no, there were about politics in a pretty general way. so far as at that point at any rate for the murdoch press, i have my own relationship with rue merit murdoch and he was the key decision maker. >> what did you feel about some of her campaigns in particular sarah's law. did that appeal to you or not? >> no. i was pretty am bif leapt about that. as i think i said to her at the time. i understood why she thought it was a big problem. i thought particularly the way -- the trouble with any of these campaigns if you're not careful the way they're conducted ends up getting out of hand. >> just like this one did. >> yeah. what about some of the personal attacks in the sun on some of your colleagues. >> my personal thought on that to anybody else was i don't like it. i think it's, not the right way to conduct politics. but, again, to be frank this was not a matter of simply for th

mr. brown: thank you. i rise today, madam president, to discuss the bipartisan transportation jobs bill that has been lingering since march 14. march 14 was pretty early in the construction season, and if the house had moved as quickly as they should have, if the house weren't apparently held hostage by some tea party members who think that transportation should be a state issue and that the federal government shouldn't be involved, they should talk to president eisenhower -- they should think about president eisenhower's legacy when they say such things, but it would have been so many more jobs created, and the presiding officer's state of north carolina and my state of ohio and elsewhere. the senate passed this job-creating economic development bill more than 100 days ago, but this historically bipartisan highway bill remains stalled. we know investments in infrastructure mean jobs directly. we know investments in infrastructure mean economic development in the future. when president eisenhower and congr

. >> this was not the result of this office targeting mr. brown bought rather it was the result of a thorough and comprehensive inquiry. >> most residents agree. >> it makes washington, d.c. look bad. >> the big news out of the attorney general's office is that the investigation is ongoing and there could be more charges even for brown. he did not rule that out. he faces six months on each charge. the superior court judge told me he let him enter through a private entrance because recently a washington times reporter took a picture inside a courtroom and also because of a chaotic scene at city hall where brown resigned. >> thank you. now a look at the other top stories. the culpeper officer accused of shooting and killing patricia cook has pleaded not guilty. he was in court today for firing seven rounds during a traffic stop in february. the first two were not fatal and that damon harmon-wright fired five more shots as she drove off. >> maryland's newest casino is causing headaches for drivers. traffic is consistently backed up there. there are c