six months inte first term of this adnistration, speaking as the forer countterrorism head onthe nationa security council, cou you give them a a prelimary grade how there doing countterrorism issues can you tell from ouid >> doing verwell. haven't had the coage yet, i understand why, to get rid of alot of the bloated bureaucracy that bw after 9/11. but i think they're doing a ve good job sfar. they should be paying a little bit more attention to groups otr than al qaeda. groups in pakistan that mi atta iia, that sort of thing. by and large i think they're doing a good job. th're focusing on yemen, about to fall apart at the seamsnd where al qaeda is movi in. focusing on somaa, also a place al qae is moving to. i think they'ra litt bit ahd of the game. >> anotherntelligence issue in the news. the presidt has proposed a form of preventive detention. e pentagon general council this week said the administration mig keep peop in jail even afterey were acquitd, found innocent sentially in court, do you see that as an sertion they belie more in intellce as a system than they do in the justiceys

the nationas now with the worst record in baseball. 26 wins, 61 losses. >> a humbling game. this is the same club that scored all those runs yesterday. we just couldn't excute. we couldn't get em over. and then twice, the bases loaded, we couldn't get it done. that's why this game, you have to stay humble. >> in baltimore, watch the playoff. paul gets whacked right there. had to leave the game. ouch. toronto fourth now. adam jones is the centerfielder. he is headed to the alstar game with the catch of the day. pulls it back. bottom six now, oscar salazar throws to the left. the orioles win 4-2. the orioles in now -- check this out as he robs him. there's no way he could get to that. great diving catch. indians still lost the game. women's golf finished its biggest tournament. but the the l.p.g.a. is under fire for losing sponsorships and tournaments. now, on the course, final roundtable, christy in contension needed the short par. she finishes at 4 overtor the furenment. yandy was also in play. great approach. this plays for a birdy. she finished at one over par. now we go t

rose: we now turn nationa security. president obama s been reluctant to investate bush-era security ograms saying we should b looking forward annotackwards. but a ries of fresh reports on those ograms have increased presre on the president. the "new york times" reports that a secret c.i.a program was withheld from congressn the ordersf former vice president di cheney. some democratic senators have called for annvestigation, while republicans e cautioning against an inquiry that would underminentelligence erations. senator jo cornyn, republin of tas, saidn fox news sunday "this is high-risk stf because i we show the ability or the willingness of our intelligce operatives a others to get informatn that's necessy to protec america, ere could be disastrs consequences." attoey general eric hder is said to be close to appointing a criminal psecutor to vestigate whether c.i.a. agents tortured terro suspects. he's expected to mak a dision within weeks. joining me now, scott shanef the "n york tes" and jane maye of the "new york

the republican nationa committees responsible for the conten of th ad.arez: in the potical ad ga, are people who want ings to stay e way ty are i generally a better condition thapeople who wa to change things. >this is the part of this dete where you are going to see in the aertising a lot of picki out different piec of the variouslans and tushing them into basically commercials sort of get that emotional response. get people a little bit afraid what health-care refm could mean to them, what a government program could meato them. you know tis is tical in political advertising. you want toet that emotional response. just like the ads we look at that were for heah-care reform,hey're really looking to get people emotionally -- etional about this issue. >> well, harry and louise are back the ars of the 1993 air war are part of the debateoday. nd why don't we take a look at thatypicalmerican cole, then and now. >>nother billion dollar ureaucracy. >> we just dn't need government monopoles toet health coverage everyone. >>ongress can f that. >> and they wilif w

thpresident intervenes a local case tat's become nationa call the police officer, alls the proessor, and inves both of them tothe whithouse for a beer. that's really omething. can't wait for that gwen: i want to see that you had a question? >> so o you think that the friday timing ws wise? is that goi to work? >> i think it wa necessary. i tink it tok too lon to get to this point. ere was a question whetr he uld do it or not. the white house cameout this morng and said the first thing erly morning, informal briefing the preside had nothinelse to say on the tter four hours later. gwen: so tere must have een a lot of discussn. >> a lotof discuion inside the white house todaand a lot of disagreement. you know,we don't have a good picte of how much disagreement but the were people inthe white house w wereary of him revisiti the issue d others who felt ike ere was no wayto getaround it unls he did. >> it has ben very dismiss of t idea and the preident said is pretty uncontroversial and heaid himself this was straightfward analysis. >> although they say the president didn't watchit was his

we did get up to 90 degrees another reagan nationa dulles hit 89. notice that humidity climbing up? we are also seeing a pretty -- seeing it pretty humid out there tonight which means these temperatures will have a hard time getting cool tonight. 78 degrees in the district. dulles 79. fredricksburg 79 and baltimore degrees. your forecast for tonight maybe a spotty shower. your best chances again in the potomac highlands. i wouldn't rule out a rumble of thunder. it will be mild, about 71 degrees. tomorrow morning is it going to be raining? there will be some showers in a few spots but the big activity gets going in the afternoon. any time after noon watch for showers and thunderstorms. we think they'rlikely tomorrow. that will affect the temperature. i don't think we'll see much sunshine. only about 8 # degrees. -- 84 degrees. our coastal storm will be developing. we'll have to watch and see what happens after the bam hamas -- bahamas and a front is getting closer. we have a good chance of squeezing out showers and thunderstorms. keep in mind any of

so be prepared. 7 # degrees at reagan nationa check out that iohumidity.n the unpleasant range. 85%. mostly e are currently ruintempuratnnre a t currently running in the low 70s. g we are going it see showers and thunderstorms during the course of the day. best chance will be later this afternoon. becoming mostly cloudy. s and ern show thunderstorms will be likely and, as shmentioned, some of those could be strong with damaging winds, some hail and some cloud-to-ground lightning. you want to be prepared for that. i will have details on the weekend forecast coming up in just a minute. >> thank you. >>> julie wright is here. she will tell us what is happening on the roadways. >> all right. we are starting off talking about the trip in virginia and for those traveling southbound along i-95 this morning headed from the springfield interchange town to newington, your ride is impacted with an accident. it occurred in the main line soutound along i-95 before you reach 7100 here in newington. the accident activity along the right side of the road. some traffic is

nationa national league leads. deep center field. it dies out there. just before the warning track.n 0 for 2 on the night with two flyouts. tied at three now. bottom of the seventh. co faces papelbon. poe left field. crawford tracking it. check out the catch at the wall. that turns the game around. the american league hangsz up to be the national -- look at that catch. 4-3 was the final. crawford, mvp, johnson papelbon, thank you very much for tha gh.rickba >>> recapping on capitol hill. mashot ask killed by police today after -- started routine traffic stop & ended with him, according to police, pulling out a gun and offics openedfire. >> also,ta sndff s that hoss toj situation at a house in falls church has

the nationa would make him pay. willingham at the plate and he absolutely launches this one.ack. the nationals taking a 3-1 lead. play good baseball. 13th home run of the soap. top of the seventh. stammen trying to do his best john lannan impression. seven innings. nationals take it 3-1. they are in the midst of a rare winning streak. >> that's how you start winning streaks and that's how you start playing winning baseball. start the pitching. you are going to have to bang out, you know, ten hits, six runs. you are in the going to start many winning streaks and you have to have good pihing. that's important last couple of nights to get starts like that. >> handily asked me two makes a streak with the nationals? momentum. a roll. serious roll of epic proportions with the team this year. if they could win two in a row on a regular basis they would be feeling good about them seles. >> get onboard. >>> fred funk atop the leaderboard at the senior british open. funk burdenied five of his final eight holes. he goes into the second round with the two-shot lead. 59-year-old watson, y

totheraise,emperetus arere i the ht's ow 6464nriredeck. 67 at reagan nationa mtinsburgtm2. hagerstown, 69.2. s head ourr leto o graphics. you'll see couple pemmer at 65. la plata at 66. humidity isn't uncomfortable this morning, but later today you'll definitely feel the increase in the humidity due to our southerly winds. so partial sunshine today, and as the cold front dips in later this evening, we are expecting showers and thunderstorms later today and into the early nighttime hours. and then tomorrow morning, probably some early clouds. and then a lot of sunshine actually for sunday. sunday is a pretty nice day, a fair amount of sunshine, but warmer, into the upper 80's tomorrow, but not too humid. pam? >> thanks, adam. the recession has slumping sales for big-ticket items like hand-made guitars. martin guitars are built in nazareth, pennsylvania, but most of them cost thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars. to stay in business, they're offering what they call a low-cost option. one guitar for $1,000. >> it's going to be a tough economy, but we would have our

are different versions of them in some countries inurope, like france, value-addetax essentially nationa sales tax. other couries, cause remeer the term "value-adde," you ta for example, production at its various sges as value is added. so if someone is producing a piece of original equipment which th goes to some othe equipment bere it becomes the final product, y would tax i each stage of production. there are variousdifferent types of value added taxes >> rose: what's e argument against it? >> they're regressive. the simplest version oit is a national sales tax. everyoneays it rardless of income as compared to a progressive tawhere the more you make the hher share oft you pay. so any value-added tax y would seriously debate in th count would have thave a big progssive element. as an example, you take... you put one in place, but at the same time you take a larg number of lowerand middle-income taroles, taxpayers, out of t income tax system. so they wouldn't be paying income tes anymore, they'd only be playing value added xes, state and local taxes, property taxes and so forth. that's

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here is d a look at the nationa satellite mpdae.r coitos much of the action is in the mid section oftnation and in the eastern third of the nation. not much going on out to the west. we do have some rain showers s xassros na, onnornte and oklahoma. the active area has been our area where we saw thunderstorms across eastern and southern portions of maryland. forecast for today and the next five days, hot and humid, temperatures in the high 80s and low 90s and chances of rain every day. >> that's the forecast we've been waiting on all of july. >> whether you've been wanting it or not. >> that's what we expect. >> it's a july forecast. >>> let's check in with julie wright and find out what is happening out there. it's been a busy morning. >> yes it has. and we have lanes open traveling in each direction at the wilson bridge. no accidents between college park anbethesda and the lanes are open on the inner loop. a wreck moving to the left shoulder, inner loop leaving college park and toward the greenbelt metro. out of rockdale toward the split, the problem was an accidentouth of shady gro

finished 13 under to win the at&t nationa and will donate all tournament winnings tois foundation. >>e do this so just bear with me. so, ger, how did you play today? wellit was a tough da go off to a slow start but hunter really put the pressure on us. oh, did he really? bo he shot 62. what didou think about that? welt -- i always nted to do that. thank you. >> well, the guy doe it l. basketball, rasheed wallace has agreed to a two-year deawith the boston ctics. all-stars pied. the cards' albert poled all vote getrs with 5.3 million. jeter an the yanks gave away a pitriped mustang before their game against th blue jays. only fitting the srtop sign the glove box much of the car. clearly in a giving move jeter pped atwo-run homer. the yanks have won ne of their lastten. throwing out the first pih can be nerve-racki. as mark wahlberg airmailed the toss t the plate. if at first you don't succe, give it another hot. his second atmpt a bit high t over the plate. as for the game, t sox sred five in t seventh inning, mark k kotsay scod. >>> that's it r me. we'll talk to you morrow. >> thanks