>> guest: about the period when mr. nixon was president?span: and when you possibly were in this office and those gentlemen were in the leadership. >> guest: well, that was before the problems arose with regard to watergate. nixon was a president whom i liked because he understood how to work with congress. he had been in both houses and i had a very fond feeling for mr. nixon although he later had problems and i prepared at that time to be active in the impeachment trial which never finally occurred. c-span: another picture of senator mansfield. what was his style compared to yours as a majority leader? >> guest: well, as the book will point out... other people are quoted in it in answer to that particular question so i'll let them answer that question. it was kind of a laid back style. i served under both mr. johnson when he was majority leader and mr. mansfield. mr. johnson -- the hard driving type. the type who would twist arms, cojole, threaten, plead and drive. mr. mansfield was just the opposite. he believed in letting every senator

but to implement an alternative scenarios something different we've told you not about europe but mr nixon it is first visit as president elect was made to russia what should we read into that it is my understanding that mr nikolay in his capacity as the then president of serbia in progress your party was invited to the congress of united russia party. or his party's sister party in russia to return to the congress of that political group so that was something which was prearranged before the election results and the whole show was the relevant. mr nicolle each is giving it to a different way so. i would like to. get through with russia they are already excellent relations and i think that there is another additional room for for improving these relations as a diplomat do you think it's possible as president nicholas wishes to be a country with two duals one looking to the east and one to the west well yes i have a lot of examples. such boluses some very good friends of rational for instance bulgaria or creation. are members or are becoming members of the u. i don't see why should serbia.

and mrs. nixonwas sitting on the top of the backseat, and i shook her hand, too, and i always remember for years during this site, she had these spiky heels on. they were digging into the red leather upholstered of the backseat of the lincoln. and some of this image of spiky heels and red leather much passionate must have suggested much to me about mrs. nixon, who's actually a very major figure in the book, and i think i many accounts was a much warmer personality, much more lively and sympathetic than she allowed herself to be in public. so i think mostly nixon, and then partly these other novels of mine, i frankly written about american historical events from the point of view of bystanders, people have gotten caught up in the. i wrote a novel aout 20 years ago called henry and clare which was about the couple in the balcony with a link is on the night of the assassination. and so people were on the fringes, and then some of that with this book there are certain real-life characters who are not bi

whatever mr. nixon wanted, i don't care how you get it done, just get it done. i don't think that's necessarily unique to that setting. i think a lot of new graduates that enter into the world that encounter clients that don't want to hear lawyers putting the brakes on and say if you do, i'll go find someone else. that's something we have to deal with, be mindful of. one thing that struck me when i read mr. dean's book, when it came to your attention, that the -- the brookings institute might be firebombed and you went and put the brakes on that, rather than being sage advice, it almost seemed like the response to that was you didn't have the grit to, you know, do the job that needed -- little old lady was the term that they used, like when yo

mr nixon did you know about the burglary of our democratic national headquarters at the water people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt well i'm not a crook i burn everything i got i'm going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman in september two thousand and eight with the dow jones industrial average still above ten thousand treasury secretary hank paulson and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke were holding closed door briefings with congressional leaders and privately warning them that the global financial meltdown could occur within a few days our intelligence officials estimate that saddam hussein had the materials to produce as much as five hundred tons of syrian mustard and v.x. nerve agent. in such quantities these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands the main reason we went into iraq it's a time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction turns out he didn't i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of you know fat cat bankers on wall street. now the saucepans that for decades through several

order that disbarred president nixon, when the -- in describing his conduct the court said that mr. nixon improperly attempted to obstruct an investigation by the united states department of justice of an unlawful entry into the offices of dr. lewis fielding, a psychiatrist who had treated daniel elsberg, improperly consealed and encouraged others to conceal evidence relating to unlawful activities of members of his staff and of the committee to re-elect the president and improperly engaged in conduct which he knew or should have known would have interfered with the legal defense of daniel elsberg. so he was not in -- acting in a lawyer role, but because of that conduct, he lost his law license, and he actually tried to voluntarily resign his license to the new york bar and they really wanted to write the order disbarring him so they declined his voluntarily r resignation and proceeded with disbarring proceedings. >> if i could maining a point here. the whole reason we're here today is because when john testified in front of the senate, he had created a document which he was asked who was

i wrote the message for mr. nixon and 74 that proposed the first universal healthcare in america, that was from a republican, a compassionate republican, not a compassionate democrat. that was the first one from a president, and we thought that everyone in america should have access to healthcare, and i very much still do. i think the way mr. obama did it, breaking all the eggs and trying to put the egg yolks back in the eggs was not the right way to do it. jenna: i have a question from shaun. where did all the money go, europe's money, our money, where is it? that's the question we'll have you address after the quick break. you're laughing already. quick commercial break, where did all this money go, the question from shaun today, ben will answer that in just a moment. and crowd cheering sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering so, i'm walking down the street, sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering just you know walking, sfx: sounds of marching bandnd and crowd cheering and i found myself in the middl

mr. butterfield. how was nixon so confident, able to be so confident in his ability to keep these tapes secret? it seems maybe just with hindsight it was almost inevitable when a scandal like this would arise these tapes would get out. was it hubrous? did he have a tighter grip on his inner circle than he ended up having? why would you say he had such confidence in his ability to keep these secret? >> i don't know, but i was flattered by it because the secret was well kept until -- and to answer the question earlier that someone mentioned, perhaps it was the dean, why he didn't burn the tapes. i always felt i knew why he didn't. it was simply because he could not fathom, he couldn't imagine, the tapes ever being revealed. he really didn't. he had that much confidence. on i'm sure that's right early on. there was no one that was going -- it is amazing. henry kissinger didn't have a clue. john ehrlichman didn't have a clue. rosemary woods did not have a clue. we just didn't run around talking about it. and -- well, y

mr. dean recounted his days at the nixon white house in two books "blind ambition" and "lost honor." after retiring, mr. dean retired to best-selling books and lecturing as well as a column pift. he currently writes for justia.com. his books include the rehnquist choice, warren g. harding, worse than watergate. the secret presidency of george w bush, broken government, how republican rule destroyed the legislati legislative, executive and executive branches and pure goldwater. while working on his next book, he continues as a visiting scholar and lecturer at annenberg school of communications and regular contributor on "countdown with keith olbermann. he also examines the impact of the american bar associations model rules of professional conduct on select historic events like watergate. at this time i am privileged to introduce mr. john dean and our panelists alexander butterfield and scott armstrong. [ applause ] . >>> this is really a unique panel this morning. take a special delight in being able to moderate. i'm the guy who thought i was taped. scott's the guy who thought there m

in the 1974 statement by nixon, he says ambassadorships have not been for sale. but the very same day mr. comebeck is convicted for selling ambassadorships. if you look at the donations of some of the nixon appointes, the ambassador to great britain had given a quarter of a million dollars. the ambassador to looks emberg had given 300,000 dollars. one of our ambassadors to france had given $300,000 to the nixon campaign. all told, $1.8 million was attributable to 31 of his ambassadors, and then another $3 million was attributable to six people who were apspiring to be ambassadors. the selling of manships was also mentioned in oral arguments the supreme court in the buckley case. hopefully this will work. >> campaign contributions, the gifts for people and the ambassadors, the campaigns, specific contributions and connections, but participate in favorable actions and large number of corporate officials who were convicted and many of them pleaded guilty to illegal campaign contributions. and it's the vast increase in the course. >> so that's from the buckley oral argument, and that's one o

nixon. very vocal. and i think mr. rodino didn't think he the measured personality that he thought, that the congressman thought would need. certainly had the intellectual skills but he thought he wasn't the person. another issue that was very important to the congressman as is all politicians is loyalty. he never said this directly. i don't think he felt that jerry was going to be loyal to him in the sense that jerry had served other members of congress, other members of the judiciary committee before he became chairman, and i think he felt that, again, a very strong issue with congressman rodino because he just didn't feel he would have his complete loyalty in this most difficult endeavor. so i think if you put those two together, as a generalization, that's why he said, i think we need to form a new group, and first we must start with a -- with someone who will lead them. and that's -- that's how we got there. >> okay. now -- now the tough part. how do you, a non-lawyer, not from the that world, start to collect can

nixon himself. not through a talking head, but himself and say, mr. president, what gordon liddy told me was they committed these past crimes. the elsberg break-in, which nixon will end up getting disbarred for. the watergate break-in. they want to pay hush money in the future to keep these guys quiet, and nixon then has the ability to deal with the situation directly rather than eight months later when he has to go in and say there's a cancer on your presidency. by then it is a cancer. it's not yet a cancer in that first week. he has the ability to get to him and say do something about this, and then the question is, well, really would it make any difference with nixon? interestingly, one of the tapes that has not been transcribed that john has transcribed is on tuesday night when he comes back to the white house, and he is talking to haldeman after talking with mitchell, and he said what mitchell talked about is why do we have the miami community form a defense fund for these people? that will be good politically because that will kind of activate pe

so in a 1974 statement by nixon, he says, ambassadorships have not been for sale. but the very same day, mr. comback is convicted for selling ambassadorships. and when you look at the donations of some of the nixon appointees, the ambassador to great britain had given a quarter of a million dollars. the ambassador to luxembourg had given $300,000. one of our ambassadors to france had given $300,000 to the nixon campaign. all told, $1.8 million was attributable to 31 of his ambassadors. and then another $3 million was attributable to six people who were aspiring to be ambassadors. and the selling of ambassadorships was also mentioned in -- at oral argument before the supreme court in the buckley case. and hopefully this will work. >> 1972 campaign. there's no need to go into any detail of that sorry and sordid story. it's set out in the record. it's a matter of public knowledge. the huge campaign contributions, the gifts from people who wanted to be ambassadors, the campaigns, specific large contributions in connection with anticipated favorable government actions such as the milk producers,

mr. president, i am in fact her father and nixon says of course you are and slapped him right in the face and apparently the press, tv and radio and the press tried to work out why this had happened and it took somebody that came up with a solution that because nixon was somewhat clumsy but in fact he realized he had made a mistake and he was torn between going of course you are and going of course you are and he put the two together they were not as many stories but that is one of the points. anyway, the small talk and lack of realization of the dramatic irony was always a factor but not a major factor. >> host: sir david, we are about to go to a break and when we come back we will talk about how facing this challenge, you managed to craft historical important interviews. thank you. we will be back in a moment. >> guest: i will be here. >> host: welcome back. i'm here with sir david frost on "after words." we were just setting up the story, frost nixon interviews 1977. .. 60% of the things that president nixon did were good. 30% may not agree, but he didn't know it. and that last 10%. wh

we have roughly 3,700 hours of nixon tapes which cover from february of 1971 to july of 1973 when mr. butterfield's public admission results in the white house shutting down the taping system. so now that you've got a sense of how enormous this system is, if you're trying to figure out water watergate, you realize oh, my goodness, this covers the period. the plumbers. it covers the dirty tricks operations. it covers the watergate break-in and the cover-up. this is going to tell us what actually happened. let's go back to the time line. so you know you have this huge bit of information. and the question is how to get it. now, president nixon -- well, let me put it this way. if we were having this conversation in january of 1973, just imagine that cable existed then. in fact, imagine a different world. but in any case. it's january 1973. you wouldn't know that kennedy had a taping system. kennedy had sadly been dead for almost ten years. you wouldn't know that lyndon johnson who had been out of office for four years had had a taping system. you wouldn't even know that fdr had a taping s

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nixon to celebrate here are some of my favorite fun facts about watergate. the mastermind behind this botched plot is g. gordon liddi who looks like if mr. a mustache to hide his true identity. as if getting caught wasn't enough here is how nixon described him in the knowing gun tape. >> also, what is the first g stands for that you would rather go by gordon. the heart of the case against nixon are the watergate tapes. you are too can relive, not only nixon's role in the cover up but also his lazy musings on blacks and juice. >> black calf's, most them basically are just -- the jews are very aggressive, abrasive, and obnoxious. >> i am offend. and not just because i am jewish, but because if there is one person that should understand the plight of the jewish people it's the could i with the biggest ski slope in history. the legacy of watergate is twofold. on the one hands the media no longer really respects politicians. instead they hunt them like democratically elected wild turkeys. and two now every scandal has the word gate at the end. wikapedia lists all the billion of them. weaner gate. everyone nipplegate.

nixon's appointees to the supreme court, three of them, including the chief justice of the united states, said you have to turn over these tapes, mr. president, because you're not above the law. this was not an ideological exercise, partisan exercise. it was not about the republican party. it was about nixon. >> that's true. we should answer the question about -- we should be accountable. >> yes. >> when we wrote "all the president's men," we sat down and said we went to grand injurerinjure jurors. we need to acknowledge that. carl got phone records from private people. we need to acknowledge that. we need to acknowledge and deal with the genuine emotions when we screwed up on the haldeman story, so on and so forth. we should have no objection to people saying how many deep throats there were. happily seven years ago, mark feld, on his own, decided to come out and unmask himself. that day, carl and i were in the newsroom and bradley and len downey are saying, you've got to confirm it. and we weren't worried that he's being taken advantage of. he's over 90, demeantia. they're saying, looks this is reality. we need to confirm it and

mr. weld later served as government of massachusetts. >> hi, i'm director of the richard nixon presidential library and museum in yorba linda, california. september 8, 2011. i have the honor and privilege to interview william weld. thank you for joining us today. please tell us how you came to be involved with the inquiry? >> i got a call in the fall of 1973, an associate at a law firm in boston. asking me if i would be interested in interviewing for a job on the impeachment staff. at that point, it hadn't really gotten off the ground. i said no, i have to stay on until i make partner. and i called back in 15 seconds and said i made a grave mistake. can i still interview? he said yes and sam garrison, running the republican side of the staff, not yet fully unified. some thought it never was. i went down, met with sam, had a good interview with him. engaged to come in quite shortly thereafter, and reported for duty in december 1973. >> tell us a little bit about -- first of all, about sam garrison. give us the work nature of him? >> he was a devoted family man. i think from the south. from r

when he started his mail route, richard nixon was president and the beatles was still together, back in 1969. well, today mr. o'leary delivered his last letter. after 42 years on the job, co-workers, administrators, even the mayor helped him celebrate his last day of sorting and delivering mail. asked what he'll do with all his free time, o'leary told us it's not up to him. >> my wife has got a lot of stuff for me to do. she has -- she doesn't have a list. she's got a novel. honey-do novel. >> even more remarkable, in 2010 o'leary was honored for driving a million miles without an accident. i don't think he's going to get much rest in his retirement. >> hopefully something on the list is take a vacation. >> one quick programming note. because of the giants game at 7:00, "dateline" will aerate:ir to 10:00. >> hope to see you at 6:00. good night. good night.

mr. issa, your conspiracy theory has become reality. >> when nixon pushed the emerging discussion and discoveryf the plumber's activity atwater gate, pushed it past the election -- >> throw around the term watergate so much at fox you think the guy run fox was a nixon operative. oh, my god! ♪ >> we begin today as a house rules committee continues to argue thursday's scheduled vote to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt. but as that continues, a report this afternoon could throw the very facts of the fast and furious case upside down. and explosive investigation by "fortune" magazine that took six months to research, reports much of what republicans have been telling us about fast and furious may be entirely wrong. two weapons found at that point scene of agent brian terry's tragic death were allegedly bought by a manuel known to agents. trance subsequent and drug user who purchased them with cash. the report states that the man was a fast and furious suspect. but that the guns in question were not allowed to, quote, walk over the border into the hands of drug gangs. in fact, "fortune"

mr. issa, your conspiracy theory has become reality. >> when nixon pushed the emerging discussion and discoverye, pushed it past the election -- >> throw around the term watergate so much at fox you think the guy run fox was a nixon operative. oh, my god! ♪ >> we begin today as a house rules committee continues to argue thursday's scheduled vote to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt. but as that continues, a report this afternoon could throw the very facts of the fast and furious case upside down. and explosive investigation by "fortune" magazine that took six months to research, reports much of what republicans have been

four years later, you understand now the recent nixon and to keep johnson very happy. mr.he transition that showed with a tape recorders were in the white house. it was one of the reason why they got that pilothouse and orchestrated johnson's birthday party, why he sent a check down to the ranch with briefing papers every week. he wanted to keep johnson attend. >> the greatest social florist for a baby bird to pay homage to johnson. >> so watergate is now gaining for us and in january of 1973, nixon's man called johnson and say, you know, you might want to call your friends in the senate and just tell them to back off on this watergate investigation. we will reveal this fact issue were illegally surveilling,, eavesdropping on us in 1968, to which johnson said, well, if you do that, i will say what i learned when i was illegally wiretapping you back in 1968. [laughter] this extraordinary situation of illegal but no. how did this come up with? about two weeks later, nixon is inaugurated for a second term in two days after that, lyndon johnson died of a heart attack. and at t

mr. president. you and hillary go down to the senate judiciary committee and testify. ford testified after the nixon pardon. go down and testify. let them ask as many questions as they want about whitewater. and they started screaming, i'd rather -- and the other staff members, started screaming, this is crazy. bad publicity. i'd rather have vast publicity. you'll be able to handle any testimony because there is nothing here in any event than set up an institution with 25 assistant u.s. attorneys and 25 fbi agents who will start investigating you and your friends in arkansas for the rest of your presidency. a and when i said this by the way monica lewinsky was a junior in high school. she wasn't even around at this time. but don't set up this institution. they'll be after you, your friends, everything. oh, they keep asking me about it. he folded. he folded. even hillary folded. hillary was on my side and then she couldn't deal with it. and they appointed the independent counsel who -- and the first one was replaced, bob fis k, by ken starr. i then left the white house because i was a very controvers

mr. objectivity. you report that in his radio comment tears, which didn't get widely picked up, he was quite a liberal and said some pretty harsh things about the nixontration. >> woe do a regular commentary, most people don't go back and look at cbs radio reports. cronkite didn't write all of them there were scriptwriters for some. nevertheless, lyndon johnson knew about cronkite's radio reports, said i can't believe he is getting away with that, he didn't mind. but the nixon people found out and chuck coleson went aft her are cronkite, to no avail. everybody made a decision they liked walter cronkite, didn't want to hear anything negative about him. thought of like the king daddy of the fourth estate, a patriarchal figure to young reporters, he had immunity. >> i can't imagine even if he was as popular today as he was in the '60s and '70s, the world of 24/7 cable, bloggers, twitter, i would imagine his image, some of these things, a freebie deal from pan am airlines, his image far more tarnished than it was at that time. >> he was a pioneer of tv, rules were being made in a hurley burly fashion. don hewitt was creating the industry of broadcast new

mrs. mitchell's home state should be crucified for his vote against a certain nixon supreme court nominee. she caused her husband endless problems and on top of being a bit unstable and volatile and having a drinking problem, also had severe emotional difficulties. she could be a very charming lady. but she could also be a nightmare in social settings, on the phone to reporters, and i think she compounded her husband's problems during the watergate scandal. you'll find a lot more about all of this in my book "the strong man." host: another tout from another viewer with a question or comment about watergate 40 years after the break-in. [video clip] >> i love the phrase those who forget the past are deemed to repeat it. i'm curious what we have learned as a nation and then as leaders of this nation and then what we should learn in the future from watergate. host: james rosen? guest: this is similar to some of the questions that we've had about the legacies of watergate and lessons of watergate. one of the conventional wisdoms that surrounds watergate now is it's not the crime, it's the cover

mr. limbaugh. >> the right word march of the republican party is something we talk about. on health care it's been remarkable. the universal health care that richard nixons willing to sign the republicans thought was not progressive enough was to the left of the affordable care act. when bill clinton proposed his health care solution, what they counter proposed was essentially what became the affordable care act with the mandate. now the democrats came back with the mandate and they say no, that is changing america forever, that is unconstitutional. now they have even given up the goal of doing anything about health care. they used to at least pay lip service. they used to say of course we have a health care plan. of course health care is broken. we have to do something about it. now they havgone so far saying no, we want the totally broken and destructive status quo. >> yet it's working. when you look at 54 million people received free services.ç 5.2 million seniors saved $3.7 billion on medicare costs. i mean, it's working. yet this means nothing. we're talking politics. we're talking that party politics, partisan politics are above senior kids. does

nixon administration remained committed to friendship. the list goes on and during those years as governor he really began to build an international profile. none of that would have come forward if mrs reagan hadn't entrusted to us the letters and all the documents we've used in the last couple of years and at least for me it was taking a big chance because you don't know me that well, exempt through secretary schultz, and i thank you -- except through secretary schultz, abandon i thank you very much. >> here is the first question for the panel. what do these letters reveal about the man? art, why don't you take a stab. >> i think a lot of it's been said. i think one of the things that surprised me the most. i know i worked with him and traveled with him for almost four years -- we didn't realize the extent to which he was working when we all thought he was sleeping or watching television or something like that. we -- i don't know anyone that was with him that realized the extent of his readings, his understanding. one of the biggest surprises when we published all those radio essays he had written in the 1970's, it was a terrible shock to a lot of his advisors that all the things t

mrs. king, for about a minute. when he came out, the deed had been done. it really set an example of racial healing across the country and it swung martin luther king's daddy from nixonage it ended up getting senator kennedy elected president. >> doing the right thing can be good politics as well. you and your brothers and sister have done so much public service. clearly this is what eunice and sar shriver taught you. what is it about your father that became such a role model? i remember, in fact, when he was running for vice president in 1972, which many would say was a fool's mission because george mcgovern, he was the seventh choice to be the running mate. >> i think it was his deep faith. i really believe he was born and raised in a belief that we ought to all try to do something for the poor and for those that are disenfranchised, people with developmental disabilities. you see those actions actions a throughout his life. i think a great hope he had of spreading hope and love and what the book is really about. about a son trying to figure out what gave his father so much joy, learn a little bit about him historically and enabled him to be happily married for 46

mr. waxman: thank you for yielding to mesm the clean air act was adopted in 1970, signed by president nixon. changes were made in 1990. signed by president george h.w. bush. the heart of the clean air act has been that e.p.a. relies on the best science possible to determine what level of pollution is harmful for people to breathe. they decide what is safe. and e.p.a. sets a quality standard. this is the standard to protect public health. then they take into consideration at the state and local level the costs of how to achieve that. they may give more time, they may do it in different ways. but the section 206 of the bill would end this commonsense approach, the main part of the clean air act, because it would make cost a factor in what is supposed to be a scientific decision about how much pollution is safe for a child to breathe. in setting a public health standard, it would give as -- to give as much weight to a polluter's the company cftc ant as to a scientist. this is like going to your doctor, asking for a diagnosis and he wants to tell you what your diagnosis is based on the cost of

harry truman and dean acheson or richard nixon and henry kissinger or ronald reagan sure shows for their politics is on foreign policy david caesar money. >> when mr. requeue carb rich. you are the foreign-policy adviser in the way. what do you think has been most surprising, seeing the president has implemented its foreign policy would've expected during during the campaign? >> i think the most striking thing is one that i would have to that has gone further than i anticipated and that is the evident skill with which the president has used force. it is an administration that is striking for national security and foreign policy. but the tendency for any given meter is to air in one direction or another. this president has been striking in his pursuit of peace and use of diplomatic and coalition and other strategies, the willingness in key situations where american interests demand it to commit to military force. the bin laden is the stigmatic, but there are many others. >> host: talk about how traditionally thought to be a democratic weakness and how do you think that will play politically? >> this is interesting in one respect in traditionally de

nixon as protecting conversations with the president himself. now the letter that eric holder wrote to the president saying please give me executive privilege did not say, because i discussed this with you, mr implication is there. executive privilege protects communications with the president, the human being of the president, not with people that work with him and the justice department. bill: let's be clear now. you say this is not an acceptable subject for executive privilege. >> correct. bill: why would they seek this? >> there must be something in these documents, or there must be someone who observed these documents that the attorney general is trying to keep from public view. if the attorney general sat down and discussed it with the president he probably doesn't want the congress and the public to know that, because we know of the awful events that occurred as a result of the fast and furious escapade. but we also know that executive privilege only pertains to military, diplomatic and sensitive national security matters. now, was fighting the drug gangs at the border a sensitive national security matter? and if so was the president of the united states of america personally involve

mr. president, what did the president know? when did he know it? the problem was invoking executive privilege is that it reminds me, unfortunately, that richard nixonchard nixon walking around the white house with a drink in his hand thinking how to keep the watergate tapes away from the american people. this is not a good thing for this presidency or this country, in my view, and it's not a true definition of executive privilege. it's political, in my view. >> steve: all right. peter johnson, jr. thank you. plenty to talk about today. >> absolutely. >> this story will make you sick. a bus monitor breaks down in tear when is kids she's watching over turn on her. >> you're fat. you're so fat. >> oh, my god, your glasses are fogging from your spit. >> alisyn: the entire nation is rallying behind here. her and she's here next. >> brian: forced to rent because you're losing your home to foreclosure? real estate guru bob massi with what you need to know. >> steve: don't try this at home, kids. cirque de soleil performing on our plaza. >> brian: she's good. get great deals at bass pro shops' 4th of july sale, like... and check out family summer camp, wit

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