-day or pre the day as the case maybe and the inflation is in the mail joining me now from nashville tennessee is author economist would be comedian we found out of the pork fest roast of south on molyneux he's a lot funnier than i am author of the politically incorrect guide to capitalism a book that unfortunately really shouldn't be necessary he's a senior fellow of business and economic studies at the pacific research institute bob murphy thank you so much for being with us tonight. a outstanding now and you've pointed out on your blog repeatedly that the raising of the debt ceiling itself is entirely unnecessary and that all of this is drama if you were in charge what would your alternative be to raising the debt ceiling i feel i'm embarrassed for even phrasing it that way but let's be honest those of us who are looking at honest alternatives for the government doing the right thing in the situation are kind of on the outside of this conversation we are exactly right and it's true i mean you and i have very strong views about what the government should be doing so obviously this isn't the

to revive my career i journeyed to nashville, tennessee, nash vegas, music city and home of third mant down with recording artist and label executive jack white. >> this is incredibly exciting. >> for me too. >> stephen: this is an amazing moment sitting across from a true genius, an icon from a generation. what does it feel like for you to be across from me? >> i know -- i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: okay. >> it's funny. >> stephen: don't try. if you don't know how don't try. >> i don't know how to put it into words. >> stephen: shhh. you are both the recording artist and the record executive? >> si, yes. >> stephen: you have cut out the middle man and can exploit yourself directly. can i take to the record executive? >> you want that hat on right now? okay. what is it like working with jack white? >> incredible. >> stephen: i hear he is a prima donea. what is the most exploitive thing you could ask yourself to do? >> probably something like this. this is exploitative. >> stephen: i'm getting what i need out of it. i want to make sure jack white is getting what h

come with me to nashville, tennessee to an old farmhouse set back off the road, a little house, window here, window here and doorway that looked like a face. the windows, door, and front porch kind of sag so it looked like a smiling face. [laughter]. then there was a long sidewalk that led up to the house. when you turn and started toward it, you felt like you were going to a warm and happy place. my grandparents loved to in the evening sit on the front porch. there was a radio that set in the window, my grandfather would listen to the ball game. i remember when marion anderson would sing, my grandmother made us be quiet and respectful before greatness. every once in a while a neighbor would come by and would excuse herself and come out with a pitcher of lemonade or ice tea. she had those tea cakes that i loved. most of the time children would say go on and play. you wouldn't listen to grown up's conversation. at that point we were all welcome. the stories were layered. seniors got something that the young parents and fathers learned, then teenagers and little ones. we all got somethin

i was born in nashville, tennessee, a little town side of nashville. that is where i grew up, went to high school, met and married my husband. moved back to st. louis where i lived part of my life. i heard people saying missouri and missouri. what is the correct pronunciation of our new home? the best place to go when you want information is where? >> [inaudible]. >> of course, we all know that. i went to the library and the librarian gave me a wonderful book and began a life long friendship with the librarian. missouri is the native american pronunciation. in their language it is the people of the big boats. one word means all of that. missouri. frenchman who came up the mississippi river. they said that would be a great place to have a trading post. they set up a trading post and called it st. louis. missouri became missouri. now i ask you which is correct? missouri or missouri? >> missouri. okay. neither one. [laughter]. you can't say the native americans were wrong for saying missouri. you can't say the french were wrong for pronouncing it in their

cities like cincinnati and nashville, tennessee, likely to get in on the heat indices pushing 110 degrees outside monday afternoon. >> and you say the real relief comes midweek, but with it, some severe weather? >> reporter: powerful thunderstorms across the middle atlantic states later on this week. the core of the heat suppressed. so, the northeast escapes the major heat wave. but from the south plains into the tennessee valley, look for these blistering hot temperatures to continue throw throughout the dur case of the week. >> all right, we'll be watching. justin polvick, thanks to you. >>> we turn overseas now to the sunday paper that delivered its final edition, and we mean final. "the news of the world" closed today after revelations that reporters were bribing police and eavesdropping on everyone from the royals to every day victims of crimes. and today, the media mogul who owns the paper, rupert murdoch, swooped in, trying to limit the damage. abc's jeffrey kofman is in london tonight. >> reporter: rupert murdoch rushed to london today to rescue the $33 billion media empire he has

and i wrote "pulling time in nashville at the walls" which is tennessee state prison, which is shut downcome and see me ♪ ♪ they can spare some of the time ♪ >> i let my feelings out in my songs and i wrote old-time country. i don't write anything but old-time country. when i'm under pressure and depressed i write all the time. all i do is write my songs and play my guitar and study the bible and try to stay out of trouble. ♪ oh you can't leave >> though confined to prison, mccullough confided he still had dreams. ♪ with a fool >> i just want to go into a studio and cut a couple of albums and try to make it. what i plan to do is get out and go to church and find happiness. and happiness is that valuable because there's not really a whole lot of happy people that i know. we may smile and laugh and joke, but we're not happy. it's hard to be happy in a place like this. ♪ i know she thought i never thought i'd ever be this scared ♪ ♪ when i close my eyes and watch you lying there ♪ ♪ when i close my eyes and watch you lying there ♪ >>> next on "lockup raw" -- >> i chose to be executed by fir

it to be affordable, with charges kept low enough, as she put it, that a schoolteacher in nashville, tennessee, could go there for treatment. with the help of her friend and patient, leonard fooirestone, s created and sustained her vision. one day long before ground was broken, she was part of a group whisked off to las vegas on a private plane to see frank sinatra perform in concert. on the way back mrs. ford told her captive audience all about the unbuilt treatment center. of course, she didn't stop there. there was nothing readily available to write out a pledge. so it came to pass that the first major do nations were written on cocktail napkins on frank sinatra's plane. her physical recovery was matched by her spiritual growth. initially she resisted putting her name on the facility. what if she fell off the wagon. later she gained personal responsibility for what everyone regarded as her most tangible legacy. a higher power was responsible for the betty ford center, she insisted. she was merely an instrument to be used in carrying out his plan. no one was proder of her accomplishments tha

>> nashville, tennessee. >> awesome. going to be hot in tennessee today.et's take it back inside now to lester. >> janice, thanks. >>> the george clooney movie "up in the air" showed us the uber road warrior, posh lounges, every request answered with your request and a smile. 10 million miles last night on united airline. tom, good morning. great to see you. >> hi, lester. >> how did you rack up 10 million frequent flier miles? were those actual air miles or credit card miles mixed in? >> that's what they call button seats. actual flown miles. >> i know you're a consultant for auto dealers. tell me where you travel and how you rack up that many miles. >> i racked up 4 million or so going to australia. i started doing consulting back in '84 and i've been there over 200 times and greatest clients in the world. >> we saw a picture a moment aknow. you got your name on the side of an airplane. that's one perk. what else comes with being a million mile flier or 10 million mile flier? >> i'm sorry, lester. >> what comes, what are the perks with your status? >> we

austin, texas, first, followed by raleigh, north carolina, nashville, tennessee, and san antonio, texas, and houston, texas, and forbes says that many of the cities on the list have some of the best job creation records in the nation. joining me is the author and forbes contributor who wrote the article detailing this list. thank you for joining me, joel. >> my pleasure. >> okay. so i have to say, i'm from the state of texas, so any time i see texas in a good list like this, it makes me smile, because i love to see all of the major cities on the list, but why is texas taking in so many spots here, houston and san antonio and austin? >> well, we were looking at job creation, but other things. migration, and where people are having children, where are immigrants coming in and thriving? and the texas cities and dallas also did very well. all of them did really well, and then there were some cities in the south that nashville, raleigh, also doing very well. the only big city on the east coast on northeast that did well was washington, d.c. not too hard to figure out why they are doing well.

>> jay erskine, nashville, tennessee. >> jimmy: very good. >> jennifer from long island, new york. >> >> jimmy: very good. [ cheers and applause ] >> jennifer from long island. ♪ >> brian from boston, mass. ♪ >> jennifer from long island. ♪ >> brian from boston, mass. ♪ >> jennifer from long island. ♪ >> brian from boston, mass. ♪ >> jennifer from long island. ♪ >> brian from boston, mass. ♪ >> tennessee. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: here we go. please turn around and face the sharp 108. get your cell phones ready. get the camera apps all going and moving. couple iphones and then you brought something special for us. from -- [ laughter ] -- from 2003. oh, okay. but now, don't fire until i tell you to, okay? i will give you the signal. let's start the loop! ♪ ready. aim. shoot! ♪ stop the loop! stop the loop. let's see what we got here. here we go. player number one? oh, this is nice. you won a chewed pen cap. [ laughter ] >> higgins: oh. you won a chewed pen cap. who chewed it? we can't say. but what we can say is you know her very well. she's one of the most famous people on the planet. wa

." >> the story intrigued us so much, we came to nashville, tennessee, to find out more about the crimeon and the woman who loves him. >> "thanks for reading and thanks for the weekly entertainment. sincerely, melissa harris." >> you're going to make me tier tear up. >> this is the first time i've seen or heard this letter. >> really? >> yeah. >> what did you think of what she said? >> very emotional and moving because that letter encapsulates not just a ten or 12-year journey but probably a lifetime journey. >> at 39, david harris' past is written on a million faces in prison. raised by a single mother in a poor family, he turned good grades and football prowess into athletic and academic scholarships at a tennessee state college. but he couldn't hack it. he dropped out the first semester, worked a few jobs for several years, married, had a child, divorced and then turned to alcohol and drugs and committed nine armed robberies within five weeks to feed his habit, holding up places like this subway. >> typically two or three individuals walk in the door, one, two, three or none may actu

happened at a weekend race at the speedway in nashville, tennessee. his smoking hot wife. >> thank you for the racing and goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the track. lord, i want to thank you for my smoking hot wife tonight, lisa. my two children, eli and emma or as we like to call them the little "es" and lord may the drivers put on a performance worthy of this great track in jesus' name, boogity, boogity, amen! >> that was pastor joe nelms. with prayers like that pastor nelms could find himself a regular spot on the nascar circuit. all right. it's 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. 7:00 a.m. out west. here are some of the other stories that have us talking this morning. in norway a court hearing for a confessed killer. anders breivik reportedly wanted to explain himself for the terror attacks that killed some 93 people. after public struggles with substance abuse an autopsy scheduled for amy winehouse. the troubled singer was found dead in her london apartment saturday. bottom line, you'll get your football. nfl.com reporting both playe

but that's what happened on saturday night before the nationwide fed rated auto parts 300 in nashville, tennesseeelms. >> we thank you for all your blessings, and in all things give thanks, so we want to thank you for the mighty machines you brought before us, and thank you for the dodges and toyotas, and thank you for roush and yates to give us what is before us tonight, and thank you for goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the tract. i want to thank you for my smokin' hot wife,ly sau, and my two children, and lord i pray a blessing that drivers would put on a performance worthy of this great track, in jesus name, boogity boogity boogity, amen. >> wow, okay! >> i love the racing fuel. >> let's go back to where he got his prayer. >> dear lord, baby jesus, we thank you for the harvest of dom knees, and kfc and the always delicious taco bell. >> the real life ricky bobby there. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks t

it to be affordable, with charges kept low enough, as she put it, that a schoolteacher in nashville, tennesseeher vision. one day long before ground was broken, she was part of a group whisked off to las vegas on a private plane to see frank sinatra perform in concert. on the way back mrs. ford told her captive audience all about the unbuilt treatment center. of course, she didn't stop there. there was nothing readily available to write out a pledge. so it came to pass that the first major do nations were written on cocktail napkins on frank sinatra's plane. her physical recovery was matched by her spiritual growth. initially she resisted putting her name on the facility. what if she fell off the wagon. later she gained personal responsibility for what everyone regarded as her most tangible legacy. a higher power was responsible for the betty ford center, she insisted. she was merely an instrument to be used in carrying out his plan. no one was proder of her

host: the next call comes from trade adjustment act recipient in nationalnashville -- nashville, tennessee. caller: i was a recipient in 2001 when i lost my job because it went to china. if it were favorably for about three years, at which point i lost the job i was trained for plant and put not find a job in the field -- radiology technology. now i am making $8 an hour. host: a couple of questions -- what was your job in radiology technology that got moved to china? caller: the job that that moved to china, i was at a plant. i apology -- host: what were you manufacturing? host: lawn mowers. host: ok. guest: you lost your job and lawn mowers and train for radiation technology and you work in that field for a couple of years? caller: 3 1/2 years, a wrongful discharge. host: did taa pay for your training? caller: they paid for my training, which was excellent and i got a job. i worked for three years and then was wrongfully discharged. so, i found another job -- there is none other job in that field. even though i have the training, a social degree in applied science but could not find a job

nashville, tennessee, on the independent line, andrew. >> caller: hi, there, good morning. first of all, i'm calling on behalf of oneledger.org. yesterday senator tom coburn of oklahoma made very good points about he was speaking directly about this debt ceiling issue, but spoke about term limits. i hope you could find that cliff, he said it so much better than i can try to say it in this short amount of time. i really think that would solve a lot of the issues down the road. not overnight, but no-brainer place to start. >> even the issue at hand? caller? do you think it would solve the issue at hand? >> caller: it's an underlying issue, it will not solve the issue overnight, no. >> what should we do about the issue at hand then? caller? we'll leave it there. dublin, georgia, republican line, jeff. >> caller: how you doing? you just touched on on something i wanted to speak about was interest rates. we go back to jimmy cart erra. interest rates started rising. i'm in the housing economy and i don't think people realize how many jobs one house, two housess, 10 houses create.

. >> nashville, tennessee, three bedroom home in music city. $350,000. >> as you call it, music city,s good about this house, 1920 cottage, comes with its own modern recording studio. fits right in. you want know it from looking at the house. it's sizable once you get in the front door. within walking distance to the trendy shops, cafes and bars. there's that bright and sunny office. just a spare room with crown molding and wide baseboards. the living room has exposed brick, vaulted ceilings, black wood floors which really reverse that, that's the office and we just saw the living room. but the black wood floors throughout. it gives this whole place, which san old house, a really modern hip look. i keep having to remind myself it's from 1920s. the open kitchen has cherry wood cabinets and concrete counter tops. quite fashionable. hip. looks like an expensive kitchen. it's not. they just have very good taste. how about the recording studio that comes with this house? >> wow. >> it's big enough for a full band, grand piano and has a separate vocal booth. this is a house that belongs rig

you oppose contruction of the new mosque in tennessee close to nashville.hey have operated, muslim worshippers at another site for more than 20 years. what is your objection to the new mosque. >> one of my guiding principles, chris, if you want to know the solution to the problem and understand the problem go to the source close to the problem. i talked to the people in the community . here's their problem and i sympathize with them. our constitution guarantees separation of church and state. islam combines church and state. they are using the church part of our first amendment to infuse the mosque in the community. sharia law is what they are trying to infuse. >> wait a minute. are you saying that we should ban all muslims from worshipping . >> no, i am not saying that. what i am saying that american laws and american courts. that's what the people are saying and that's what people are saying. >> having a mosque is not. >> chris, i also happen to know it is not just a religious mosque. there are other things going on base upon talking to the people closest

: you said this week that you oppose construction of a new mosque in murphy's borough, tennessee, close to nashville>> yes. >> chris: they have operated, muslim worshipers and another site there for more than 20 years. what is your objection for them building a new mossk? >> one of my guiding principles is if you want to know the solution to the problem or if you want to understand the problem, go to the source closeest to the problem. i talk to the people in the community. and here is their problem. i sympathize with them. our constitution guarantees separation of church and state. islam combines church and state. they are trying to infuse their position income the community and people in the community don't like it, they disagree with it. shariah law is what they are trying to infuse in to our -- >> chris: wait a minute. are you saying we should ban all muslims from worshiping in this country? >> no, i did not say that. >> chris: no, i'm asking. >> i'm not saying that. what i am saying is american laws in american courts. that is what the people are saying. that's what people are saying all -- >>

clear down through memphis, tennessee, and into places like nashville. that is the latest.back to you in new york. >> it's funny that you mentioned beverage of your choice. there's a pet shop here in new york that's taking a stand. a store in the west village within walking distance of a bunch of bars. booze hounds were buying real hounds on drunken impulse. then sobering unand realizing they -- sobering up and realizing they didn't want a dog. imagine being drunk and buying a pet. >> insane. you got it keep the puppies away from the margarita machines. it gets crazy. the morning and afternoon hours, nuts. >> keep the puppy owners away from the margarita machines. the store has banned drunk puppy buying. wow, that's waking up the next day with a surprise. thank you very much. from the margarita machines. >>> 58 minutes after the hour. here are two things that will be on your radar today. the june jobs report comes out at 8:30 eastern time. we'll find out how many jobs were created in the economy last month. >>> the final space shuttle launch is scheduled for 11:26 eastern t

you said this week that you oppose construction of a new mosque in murfreesboro, tennessee, which is close to nashville yes. >> chris: they have operated muslim worshipers at another site there for more than 20 years. what is your objection to their building a new mosque? >> one of my guiding principles, chris, is that if you want to know the solution to the problem or understand the problem, go to the source closest to the problem. i talked to the people in that community and here is their problem and i sympathize with them. our constitution guarantees separation of church and state. islam combines church and state. they are using the church part of our first amendment to infuse their mosque in that community and the people in the community do not like it. they disagree with it. sharia law is what they are trying to infuse into our. >> chris: did you saying that we should ban all muslims from worshiping in this country 12346789. >> no, i did not say that chris. what i'm saying is that american laws and american courts that is what the people of murfreesboro are saying. >> chris: but the mosque isn't g

tennessee. on the outside, he had a professional career and lived in a wealthy nashville suburb with his wife and four children. but he lived a secretive double life, and as he carried out his string of attacks against women between 1990 and 1995, the media dubbed him the gentleman rapist. >> the feeling we had on the crew was, wow, that guy is really scary. he certainly is not, you know, didn't appear dangerous or, your stereotypical inmate, but, you know, i think that's what made him really scary was that he was like your neighbor. the president of your city council or your best friend. i think that made it all the more creepy. >> rapists such as myself, pedophiles, people that murder children or women, they're at the bottom of that pecking order, okay? and there's a lot of men that will take advantage of your crime to try to manipulate you into doing something you don't want to do, be that giving them sexual favors, food from the commissary that you buy, different things like that. at the end of the day we're all wearing blue jeans with a white strip on them. we're all in prison for a law we'v

and that is -- that is the one thing that hurts the image of tennessee and i think it's even true today because you talk abouthere in nashville, we have a profootball team and, of course, we're trying to promote the city as being in a league with all the other sophisticated cities that have profootball teams. and when we get our television coverage, there's tennessee to think that somehow we're different in some way, not as sophisticated, not as, of course, the television coverage of course whenever it comes and they cover the team, they also feature the city, they'll show scenes from the city and so forth. and i think some of us stopped at -- thought that maybe dennis miller was putting us down a little bit thlast time and that we're rabid football fans and red necks and so forth. >> some would probably agree. well, to some extent what you see here is yet more the legacy of brian. now, again, we have to back up and appreciate brian for the historical figure that he is. he's a populist at heart. and part of his ideology was egol irks tar irks anism, to the extent that he generally believe thad a communityhod dicta what's goin

tennessee -- it rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? the pastor of the family baptist church in nashville said the prerace prayer.don't know if god is selling advertising time now or what but if he is he definitely picked the right guy to sell it. >> heavenly father, we thank you tonight for all your bleleings you said in all things give thanks. so we want to thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you brought before us. thank you for the dodges and the toyotas. thank you for the fords and most of all we thank you for roush and yates partnering to give us the power that we see before us tonight. thank you for gm performance technology and ro-7 engines. thank you for sunoco racing fuel and goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the track. lord, i want to thank you for my smoking hot wife tonight, lisa, emma, or as we like to call them, the little es. may they put on a performance worthy of this great track. in jesus name, boogety, boogety, booge boogety, amen. [ applause ] >> jimmy: pretty good. i would go to church a lot more frequently if i knew he was going to be there. there was a major up

tennessee. we've been fixated on the ground zero mosque in manhattan. large facilities like northern environmental. but this is on 52,000 square feet in a tiny suburb of nashville, all right? why? what -- what is the strategy there because you spend a lot of time talking about this in the book. and this -- you know, aide guy from the defense department when i was going to a briefing on this tell me, this is very much in keeping what mao used to call the war of position. you move through the countryside. you leave deposits of your belief and ideology and infrastructure and by the time you get to where you want to go, you've essentially got beachheads everywhere you want to be. is that what's going on here in your view? >> guest: i believe absolutely, fr fred. i believe the broad geographic building of the mega mosque building in this country, murfreesboro, tennessee, this is the buckle of the bible belt. alaska broke ground on its first mosque, rural wisconsin, northern kentucky, places you would never expect and the key thing, fred, they have very small muslim communities. murfreesboro, tennessee, i was on the ground at the mosque there's no more than 250 musli

tennessee defeated the state income tax and our state today is stronger today because of it. but it made certain that representatives from around the state came to the capitol in nashville with those ideas. i think there are a lot of lessons in that for congress, and we can take that diversity and those ideas and come forward with a stronger plan that is going to, you know, that is going to honor the commitments that the american people have made to us to help us engage in the problem. >> do you have the votes? do you have the votes? does boehner have the votes? >> i think when we get our amended bill in process today, that we will pass it and send it to the senate for their action. >> congresswoman blackburn, great to have you on this morning. i really appreciate your time. >> so good to be with you. thank you very much for your interest. >>> a new hampshire town of 1,000 residents just got a mile from the canadian border -- just a mile from it, is now on high alert this morning as the search for a missing fifth grader is escalating. we'll bring you the details on the search. >>> and, of course, we continue to follow the developments out of washington. it looks like it will