there are 2 completely surprising and interesting substories woven through this narrative of your brother, 1, your fabulous aunt character in mexico getting frosty into mexico and running around with frita caller and your discovery of apples? >> this is astonishing, are we talking about the family past apple? >> both and the way thing danagers come together, yeah. >> kind of astonishing, again working on the idea that everything is passed down in families is it or is it not or is it coincidence. my father had a difficult relationship with his father from mexico. we knew our family had this chain of nurseries from mexico. i never understood because my father would change tg subject when his name came up. our grandfather was an orchardist at the turn of the century. >> which you hadn't even known. >> i didn't know it until i discovered this at the archive when i was trying to page through all of these things. then i discovered an obituary that had been written about our grandfather when he died when we were much to young to remember him. it was very, very long in the texas at the time. it d

. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'll fix this. he is the almost unfailing despite his occasional request to you to help voice of it is not going to get better, deal with it, what did you learn over the course of that thing about the terrible tension between hope and reality acceptance when you are close to someone who has a terminal illness? >> that is such a hard question because the fact is they are so you. you are looking at yourself. it is impossible when your brother, sister, and 2 and a half years apart. i couldn't give what he was going through a reality. i couldn't see it for what with it was. it was catastrophic. now that i had my brother, i was desperate not to lose him. >> you hadn't had him until this. >> we had that cotten batting between us. we had a fierce attachment, when you are that locked together in this kind of angry, very strong bond, underneath that is the bond and the real attac

of the day? >> not with the narrative they have written. d the clearer voice, but that is stifled in terms of getting ahead of the narrative with his version of the dream act. you saw them pedalling and trying to threat the needle. you have to look to jeb bush and marco and others. the demographics work after that. >> you almost wonder if they plan the conference before arizona. they couldn't have planned for what the president did a week before. here is both president obama and mitt romney laying out how they are going to talk about immigration. >> in a speech, he said that when he makes a promise to you, he will keep it. he promised to veto the dream act and we should take him at his word. >> unfortunately despite his promises, president obama has failed to address immigration reform. >> there it is in a nut shell. you saw what the obama campaign would say and all he said was hey, he had four years to do something and he didn't. >> the president just did something a couple weekings ago. the republicans have this enormous long-term problem

this really represent as narrative of often forgotten victims in the narrative of 9/11. >> who might now be covered then because there are so many who couldn't take care of themselves? >> that's right. this is people that were anywhere in the area. >> so even if you lived nearby. >> even if you lived nearby. the problem is trying to prove that, have probable cause for the victims who did develop cancer in the months after 9/11. this now makes it so that you have to prove. how do you prove that even in the scientific community there's extreme doubt and skepticism about connections between the 9/11 event and cancer. >>> it was a wonderful sight in london hours ago when britain's prince philip walked out of the hospital waving to well wishers. the prince was hospitalized monday with bladder infection which forced him to miss part of his wife queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. you can bet the royal family will make it up to him tomorrow with grand celebration to mark his 91st birthday. >>> all eyes are on spain to see whether they'll request a bailout. they request spanish b

this represents a narrative of often forgotten victims in the narrative of 9/11. >> who might now be covered, then? there are so many who couldn't take care of themselves? >> right. it doesn't just affect first responders or firefighters. anyone in the area. >> even if you live nearby. >> even if you live nearby. the problem is proving it and having probable cause for those that were develop cancer after 9/11 making it so you have to prove. how can you prove if even in the scientific community there's extreme doubt and skepticism about links between the 9/11 attacks and cancer. >> and if you think about it, too, i guess a lot of people are probably wondering how long will they have to wait until this takes effect? this is just a recommendation? >> yes. we're not out of the woods just yet. it's just a recommendation. this could take weeks if not months. public comments, review, further review needs to be done. there's a longer road ahead. >> yeah. at least something's being done to try and help these folks. check back throughout the morning. >> thank you, randi. >>> no triple crown to

time, but also that they would in return receive so much more back because they're part of the narrative of someone else's love and expression of love in life. >> this isn't anything that we had budgeted for, so it was basically we asked our i.t. director to do the best you can, you know, belling, borrow, steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they n

that's why i think the narrative of the choice the obama campaign is setting out is better. at the bloomberg poll and you ask whose vision you prefer on the economy. when you give them a binary choice, he wins that. obama wins that. so what you can't let romney do is just run away from all the issues, run away from all the substantive differences, and run away from bain as he always does. and saying if you're mad, well give me a try. could things really get worse? the answer is yes, they could get a lot worse. and what he wants to do to the middle class and ordinary folks in this country while comforting the comfortable at the top of the income scale is an outrage. and i think the more the obama campaign pushes this -- and they've taken criticism the last couple weeks for this -- the better off they're going to be. >> david, talking about comforting the comfortable, the bottom would see a tax increase of $149 and the top would see a tax cut of $725,000. how's that for comfortable? >> this is just the republican playbook. the george w. bush taxes were disproportionately in th

. >> do we lose a sense of accountability charles when the caidates no longecontrol the narrative of the campaign? >> i think all this lamentntining is a little overblown. sie you insist on starting the showy ignoring the bad on plan members and talking about the two-year-old story -- ignoring the bad unemployment numbers and talking about the 200-year-old story about money in politics with a clever references about the koch brothers, what wee have is an even playing field. obama will raise $1 billion, the republicans s will raise $1 billion. let's get it on. it is an even match. >> it is the outside stuff, the unaccountable stuff almost seismic activity because the kennedy does not have to takake responsibility for it. -- candidate does not ha to take respoponsibility for it. he can even denounce it, but it is still out there. >> the fact is that it depresses turnout. we have always seen in negative ads, but we will see that on a skill we never have afforded -- on a scale we never have bore. true believers will be excited but the disappearing middle does appear a little bit. >> woul

these conversations have provided powerful narrative's, of our communities everyday struggle to raise families and survive in district 11. we would like to share the themes that came from the analysis. what is the chronic abuse of workers' rights and advocacy. the lack of opportunities to build economic asset. for folks in the neighborhood including working cooperatives. the need for cultural, the tech resources within district 11 that currently exist, none funded by the city, and the need for public policy reforms to create more job opportunities for native represents. we believe you and adults have the skills and talents to build a strong local economy. what we need is investment from the city, and we know that takes a partnership. we have begun partnership with the work force development, and we would like to see your support in order to bring those efforts to fruition. i believe supervisor avalos has a copy of the report he can share with you. thank you very much. [applause] >> i am a private citizen. my comment is probably not very important. several years ago there was talk abou

think the very essence of faith and freedom and the faith and freedom coalition is rooted in the narrative ofhip, the great relationship in the american experience between our flourishing liberty and a flourishing religious liberty. thank you all very much. >> tim, we are all catholics now. i'm sure you've heard this phrase. i know i've seen dr. land quote as saying it and as an ex-southern baptist turned catholic 26 years ago the fact that i can get an applause line on the fact that we are all catholics now tells me that something has changed. there has been a sea change that the very phenomenon that ralph reid predicted to me in 1996 when we first met in washington, that there would be a surging and coalescing of catholics and conservative kath elections and pro-life catholics and the evangelicals that had entered into the political process and there would be a vast, national merging and it's happening because we have as tim sowell kwently said in his administration, hostile to faith. i want to bring up a flipside iss issue, you know, what has grabbed the headlines or so is the hhs mandate

half of the ransom and father for mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model narrative of this revolution if you want to call it that encourage criminals of all current these people they listen to what world leaders and me repeat that assad is evil and start thinking that they have the right to do bad things to all those who serve with the president. syria once one of the safest places in the middle east is now one of the most dangerous even for those away from politics for twenty years this elderly lady has been selling vine leaves while showing us how to cook broke syrian donmar she bemoans the syria she once loved. that most syrians don't support anybody there in the middle but all suffer anyway they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happy before. she says is even harder now to get some meat for your blog. a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible a lot. more used to bring animals from all around the country but roads are now too dangerous to travel the result my business is declining prices are a lose lose situatio

. >> do we lose a sense of accountability, charles, when the candidates no longer control the narrative of the campaign? >> i think all this lamenting is a little overblown. since you insist on starting the show by ignoring the bad unemployment numbers and talking about a 200-year-old story about money in politics, with a clever reference at the beginning to the koch brothers, what we have now is an evening of the playing field. obama said he would raise $1 billion, republicans will raise $1 billion. let's get it on. it will be now an even match. >> it would be one thing if both sides raised $1 billion of their own contributions. it is the outside stuff, the icon double stuff, almost seismic activity, because the candidate does not have to take accountability for it. , butn even denounce it it is still out there, and it is really corrosive. >> we have as seen in negative ads, but man, we will see them on a scale we have never seen before. if convention is correct, that will have the effect of depressing turnout, particularly among moderates and middle of the road times. true believers will

the very essence of faith and freedom, the original faith and freedom coalition is rooted in the narrative ofhe relationship, the great relationship in the american experience between our flourishing liberty and a flourishing religious liberty. thank you all very much. >> mr. hudson. >> well, tim, we are all catholics now. i'm sure you've heard this phrase. i know that i've seen dr. land quoted saying it, and as an ex southern baptist turned catholic 26 years ago, the fact that i can get an applause line on we are all catholics now tells me that something has changed. there has been a sea change, that the very phenom than that raffle reid predicted to me in 1996 when we first met, when i came to washington, that there would be a surge iing and coalescing of conservative catholics, pro-life catholics and the evangelicals who had already entered into the political process, that there would be a vast national merging is happening. and it's happening because we have, as tim so eloquently said, an administration hostile to faith. i want to bring up a flip side issue, you know. what has grabbed the

. >> reporter: woodward and bernstein tracked down and pieced together their narrative of cover-ups, coconvert operations, much of it later confirmed in the president's own words, caught on his white house taping system. on the tapes they found nixon as early as 1971 talking about stealing evidence to blackmail former president lyndon johnson. nixon believed that there were documents in the safe of a washington think tank proving that johnson halting the bombing of hanoi for political reasons. >> it was strategic on nixon's part, that anyone who was an opponent, anyone who was a perceived enemy, anyone who was d&after them. >> reporter: given the state of politics today, the standoff between the two partyes, the inability to compromise, why should anybody conclude that the idea that i have to win and you have to lose is any different? >> the partisan hostility, the gridlock that we experience today is, indeed, the acrimony runs very deep, but i have not seen any evidence that somebody's hired a burglary team or gone out to wiretap. >> reporter: were there lessons learned? >> i think

a couple of slides that reflect on what i call this rising militancy and trying to change the narrative of the civil rights struggle. first of all, militancy is the watch word. african-americans throughout the country either inside the naacp or beyond the naacp were much less tolerant of the racial order after 1946. in other words, the war itself had made people impatient with racial segregation and racial discrimination. no longer would african-americans simply wait for the laws to change, now they would force that change. secondly, the 1940s, especially in the 1950s indicated that the federal government would increasingly use its authority and its power even in the form of troops if necessary to defend black rights. i love this photograph. it's provocative in so many ways. first of all, technically it's u.s. forces, u.s. army forces defending the freedom riders bus near the mississippi/alabama border in 1961 and some of you know about the freedom riders and we'll at least mention them in passing. but i think what's more interesting about this and the subtext that people don't know virtua

they pay tell themselves the story that they were the deepwater horizon accident some of your narrative i thought made it knew. and then ending with the deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico in april of 2010. as a person that really delved into a lot of the transcripts from the exxon valdez incident, did you see any parallels, because i did a little bit. as a reporter i didn't cover the valdez. i did cover deepwater horizon and your description of valdez and exxon's response to it i did see, it was a page out of the playbook. did you see that at all as you are seeing the coverage of bp? >> guest: there were definitely parallels. you could probably list even more than come to my mind but the one to come to mind are in a decade running up to valdez there were warning signs that exxon was not operating in a consistent manner, in a way that would give you the highest possible reassurance that such a catastrophic accident could not take place. in fact the decade before the valdez the exxon caught 80,000 not up 180,000 employees. they reorganized their entire safety department and

to contempt charges at this time is unwarranted because the committee's investigation and the narrative of the contempt citation as serious an glaring flaws. and one of the most significant and partisan decisions of the investigation, the chairman has refused requests, including requests today to hold a public hearing with mr. kenneth melson, the former head of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and exploeives. the agency responsible for conducting these operations, it seems logical and common sense that we would want to hear from him in a public forum, in a public hearing where all of us are not just reading a transcript, but have a chance to question him. i believe that one reason that he has not been called for this may be due to the fact that mr. m melson's testimony would be contrary to the partisan narrative in the contempt citation that we will regrettably be voting on today. back this july 2011, the committee investigators conducted a transcribed inter interview -- that he never informed the attorney general or other official staff at the department -- because he was, quote,

it really gets to this question in the election that you hear narrative of. ent obama's likability, that trump is his job performance. and questions like that you get a sense of behind the curtains of what motivated voters and what do they certificatperceive whether they like him or not or could someone do better? >> gene's approach talking about least volatility. president's health care law. in year and a half leading up to passage, a majority of americans opposed it. we polled it every single week. when it was -- in all of those polls, republicans and unaffiliated voters didn't like it, younger voters did, seniors did not. the day it passed we started polling about repeal and numbers were exactly the same. majority favored repeal. seniors were more supportive of it. 54% on the day after it was passed. 55% now. the numbers, the demographics, have not changed. this is a bill that is firmly established in the public mind. people know whether they like it or don't like it. nothing has changed it. >> one point on the health care law. in my opinion, the health car