david, new yorkers are used to almost everything, but i think even this has caused a gasp.ou were here this early morning describe what you saw? >> i was here this morning and one of the things we got soon after dawn was new york city police came in here almost 10 hours after this attempted spoiled terror attack and removed the nissan path finder suv took it away on a flatbed truck covered on a yellow truck i was here at sunset when that area began to once again return to normal. thousands of tourists here in the streets. as you mentioned the thing that struck me perhaps more than anything else is the resiliency of new yorkers how much this area changed in just 24-hours. the bottom line is what a difference a day can make. >> at the corner of 45th street and 7th avenue it is business as usual tonight. the streets clouded with tourists and new yorkers but a little more than 24-hours ago a different scene. this specific spot, this is where the suv nissan path finder was parked. the vehicle loaded with an incendiary device. this time last night this entire area sealed off a gh

there are new yorkers and others. people are very resilient. we have and have had a large police presence in the area. hopefully that gives people who travel to times square a certain level of comfort as i said before. new yorkers are pretty tough resilient people. >> i believe you said at the intersection, two minutes later the vendor saw them. does that in your mind something went wrong in two minutes and the device started and ran away? >> we say approximately at two minutes. the officer made his call at 6:00 34. >>> we believe it was the location. farce time, it was 2:00 o'clocks were wired together. we're not certain what time they were going to set it off. >> what device, why do you believe it did not go off? >> we don't know. we need an in-depth examination. >> security. >> with the intel, were you using that at all? >> the migration to midtown manhattan, really just in the planning stage. there were cameras there, but they are not tied into the way that cameras are in security issues and will be. we will continue to build that program u

david, new yorkers are used to almost everything, but i think even this has caused a gasp.ere here this early morning describe what you saw? >> i was here this morning and one of the things we got soon after dawn was new york city police came in here almost 10 hours after this attempted spoiled terror attack and removed the nissan path finder suv took it away on a flatbed truck covered on a yellow truck i was here at sunset when that area began to once again return to normal. thousands of tourists here in the streets. as you mentioned the thing that struck me perhaps more than anything else is the resiliency of new yorkers how much this area changed in just 24-hours. the bottom line is what a difference a day can make. >> at the corner of 45th street and 7th avenue it is business as usual tonight. the streets clouded with tourists and new yorkers but a little more than 24-hours ago a different scene. this specific spot, this is where the suv nissan path finder was parked. the vehicle loaded with an incendiary device. this time last night this entire area sealed off a ghost

david, new yorkers are used to almost everything, but i think even this has caused a gasp. you were here this early morning describe what you saw? >> i was here this morning and one of the things we got soon after dawn was new york city police came in here almost 10 hours after this attempted spoiled terror attack and removed the nissan path finder suv took it away on a flatbed truck covered on a yellow truck i was here at sunset when that area began to once again return to normal. thousands of tourists here in the streets. as you mentioned the thing that struck me perhaps more than anything else is the resiliency of new yorkers how much this area changed in just 24-hours. the bottom line is what a difference a day can make. >> at the corner of 45th street and 7th avenue it is business as usual tonight. the streets clouded with tourists and new yorkers but a little more than 24-hours ago a different scene. this specific spot, this is where the suv nissan path finder was parked. the vehicle loaded with an incendiary device. this time last night this entire area sealed off a

. >> we're very lucky thanks to alert new yorkers and professional police officers we avoided what could have been a deadly event. >> who is responsible for this? we have the latest on the investigation. plus, a growing nightmare along the gulf coast. the oil spill is only getting bigger and moving faster than expected and many fear it could have a very grave impact on the environment. >> this is a lively, how we make our living. >> what's being done on the ground and underwater to protect property, wild life and the region's economy? and violent weather, fast and furious waters create massive flooding in the southeast. is more bad weather on the horizon? but we start in new york and the attempted car bombing in the middle of times square, an suv loaded with explosives smack dab in one of middle of one of the clouded parts of manhattan. investigators say it could have been a deadly day, and luckily the bomb failed to detonate. now the investigation who is hyped the attack. here is what we know from police, 6:30 yesterday evening, someone parks a green nissan pathfinder in times square, s

[inaudible] >> a un native new yorker? >> many new yorkers say no but i was born in new york. >> you are living this book? >> i don't live -- no. i work in a building that was not in one of these stories. it is buildings like that -- [inaudible] >> the rise and fall of american soviet experts. >> started talking about america going to war against an enemy you did not know. you could be talking about contemporary politics or how little the united states knew about the u.s. as are at the beginning of the war ended world war ii a lot of people were brought into government service through the u. s government and in the 1950s and 60s, how americans earned about the soviet union and that is the business plan. it brought us through that period of understanding a large part of the population. >> you can see the stock exchange. >> it is -- in 1980 it was important especially for students, think about -- this is our original essays. it has one piece of the reagan administration and a record producer. in terms of being an editor, thi

i think new yorkers have their eyes open. if they see something, they're going to say something. >> new yorkers seem to have the guts just to do, to go on with their lives. if something happens, we'll react to it and then we will let it go from there. >> i was a visitor to new york, are you worried about the terrorism threat in times square? >> no, not really because we saw lot of police on the streets. so we're kind of safe. >> times square turned investigation spans the globe. and so does our coverage. just ahead here on cnn, we are live in pakistan and from washington, big news from the tsa. new rules for the no-fly list. >>> ali is off this week so i'm taking over the xyz, his xyz. people of new york, you have been through a whole lot lately. and i've got a personal message for you that you don't want to miss. >>> welcome back, everyone. we know what happened in times square last saturday night. and we know how the man accused of trying to set off an suv bomb was arrested. what we don't know yet is how a high achieving pa

you have to read new yorkers, none of whom were lacking in self-confidence -- you have three new yorkers, none of whom were lacking in self-confidence. [laughter] i said this is not fair. she said, no, we have bronx, queens, brooklyn. we need it manhattan. [laughter] >> ok, switching tunes, "the new york times" has called you the most important justice in america, providing pivotal swing votes, especially in the time of justice sandra day o'connor. how do you feel about that? >> well, the word "swing vote" is to me somewhat airport. -- is somewhat abhorrent. and has the visual of wild spatial gyrations. [laughter] my jurisprudence is quite consistent. i don't swing around the cases, they swing around me. [laughter] my jurisprudence is quite consistent. again, i think of tremendous importance is to find a rationale or result that unites a majority of the court. we always light seven, eight, or nine if we can have it, -- we always liked seven, eight, or nine if we could have it, but i am committed to do this. as i said, my colleagues engage with me and with each other in an open, honest, t

new yorkers get it. we shouldn't cower in fear. this city, the day after this attempt there were 10,000 bicycles riding through times square. i thought that was great. >> former counterterrorism official michael sheehan, thank you. >>> authorities questioned shahzad before and after having read him his miranda rights using the public safety exception to the miranda rule as grounds to initial questions. republicans not letting the facts stand in the way of their rapid attempt to politicize how the arrest has been handled. senator cornyn says if someone acts like a terrorist and cooperates with intent against the united states they should be treated as terrorists and not as a common criminal and should not be read miranda. shahzad is a citizen of the united states. he was naturalized april 17, 2009. in an interview, senator john mccain said it would be a serious mistake to remind shahzad of his right to remain silent until all the information is gathered. congressman peter king, the top republican on the homeland security committee t

he went on to offer this advice to new yorkers. he says, "if you see something, they should say something." brian, he was mimicking the public relations campaign that is prevalent in new york. it's very much on the minds of new yorkers as this massive investigation continues. brian? >> brian: david, one quick question; that is, i was just in times square earlier in week. and i noticed that security even on a normal day is pretty tight. has it gotten tighter? >> much tighter. there is a mobile chand post on 53th street and police in mark and unmarked vehicles. everywhere you look there is security. i believe, brian, to a great extent what they want to do is reassure the public much of this security for good reason is visible. but there is a great deal going on behind the scenes. 3:00, news conference is schedule and we should learn more then. >> brian: we'll cover that live on your fox news channel. david lee miller, thank you very much. joining me now with more on the potential terror attack is congressman pete hoekstra, member of t

people coming to new york or planning to come to new york and trying to kill new yorkers. >> kelly, canbetween the fbi and new york department. >> seamless. people ask that question a lot and the answer is the same and it's true. we're working extremely well together. >> attorney general, you referred to this as a terrorist plot. can you give us any idea whether we're talking about three people or four, for example, an internationally known terrorist group being part of this? >> at this point, i think i'm going to say no more than what i have said in that regard. okay, thank you all very much. >> an interesting news conference there at the justixto department. there are still lingering questions, but some of the blanks have been filled back in about this suspect. ray kelly, the commissioner of new york city police department might have stolen the show there briefly from all these senior federal officials when he noted it was 53 hours, 20 minutes from the discovery of the vehicle to the arrest of the suspect as he (ç bower of 24 fame, but ray kelly thinks that 53-20 number is quite impre

artist here -- the national artist here, the watercolorist, who does -- has done -- graced many new yorker covers and -- and done my -- many murals in this city -- susan davis and linda tyler. c-span: patrick tyler's book is called "a great wall: six presidents and china," and he is on his way to moscow to become the new york times bureau chief. and... >> guest: in two years. we go in succession there. i have several colleagues there. i come behind them. c-span: how long will you be there? >> guest: four years. c-span: thank you, mr. tyle >> guest: thank you. sure was great. .. [applause] >> this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at "the washington post," we always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send a little notes and i still remember that years later to read this book was so wonderful to dive into. most people in this room have fled much about barack obama and every chapter you learn new things about him but you also learn how much about this country. when i first talked to you about this it wasn't c

in a 2008 profile, "the new yorker's" malcolm gladwell described him as nerdy on an epic scale. he began college at 14 and had a ph.d. in physics by age 23. he then spent a year with stvenl hawking. after starting his own company he joined microsoft, as chief strategist. geology and extraterrestrials. are among his interestses. i am pleased to have nathan myhrvold back at the table. is it that makes a nathan myhrvold? >> i've only been me. >> charlie: the sample is small. >> this is not statistically significant, but i'm very curious about finding things out. and i love the process of trying to understand things. part of that means being confused and not knowing what's going on, then the transition of how you bring things into focus and figure it out and that's true across all the things you do. >> charlie: you start with a question. >> yeah. >> charlie: because you want to know something and you are confused because there is no easy access to the answer. >> exactly. so when i was a physicist, i was interested in the question of where did space and time come from. >> charlie: ri

this time some nervous new yorkers.s and no disruptions of power as well. >> we are trying to get more information on this report. the white house said an unnamed obama administration officials are saying it appears what happened in new york city this past weekend may have been corded by several in a plot with international links. we are waiting to confirm. new york city find it self in the crosshairs. he -- this weekend we here in new york dodged a built. a car bomb set to explode in times square. but it kaiments on the heels of a series of domestic terrorist attacks across the country. how are americans supposed to deal with this? someone who knows is the mayor of jerusalem. sadly, mayor, you have experience with how one functions in a city that is targeted repeatedly by terrorists who wish to kill innocent civilians. how do you send your children to school, go to a cafe, get in your car would be walk across a busy city road. >> i want to commend mayor bloomberg. they are dealing with this in a smart way. terrorists w

new yorkers just go about their lives. i don't blame them. [applause] extremists want a war between america and as long, but muslims are part of our tional life, including those who serve in our united states army. adversaries want to divide us, but we are united by our support for you, soldiers to send a clear message that this country is both a land of the free and the home of the brave. [applause] in an age of instant access to information, a lot of cynicism and news, it is easy to lose perspective, in flood of pictures, in a swirof political debate. power and influence can seemed to ebb and flow. wars and grand plans can be deemed one more loss -- won or lost day-to-day, hour to hour. we have experienced the immediacy of the image of the suffering child, or the boasts of a dictator, it is easy to give in to the belief that human progress has stalled, that events are beyond our control, that change is not possible. but, this nati was founded upon a different notion. we believe that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their

in that regard of people coming to new york are planning to come to new york and trying to kill new yorkers. >> a talk about the cooperation between the fbi and the new york police department? >> it seem less. glass that question and the answer is the same and it's true. we're working extremely well together. >> attorney general, you refer to this as a terrorist plot. can you give us any idea of whether we're talking about three people or more, for example, and a terrorist group being part of this? >> at this point, i think i'm going to say no more than what i have said in that regard e >> president obama also commented on this when speaking before the business council. he then spoke on the proposed financial regulation bill. this is half an hour. >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here this morning. i want to thank everyone for joining us. we have a busy agenda and we have some excellent speakers. i am looking for to wait productive two days. it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker. i want to thank the president for making that time, given his extremely busy schedule, did joi

i also describe another scene where people who we would consider, you know, not new yorkers -- [laughter] with their pickup trucks and their rifles, >> her sister was not allowed to testify in court. elsie, her family and friends had seen this brand of justice many times before. elsie spent the next nine months calling the health department, the state attorney general and her members of congress. sometimes people actually came, did come out when we complained, she said, but it was four or five hours later after the spraying stopped. we showed them the dark ground that had been saturated, but they just went back to raleigh and filed reports saying there was no problem at all. several weeks and many complaints later -- this just goes on and on -- the sheriff returned to the house. this time bearing handcuffs. he'd come over to arrest me, elsie said. i was out mowing the lawn, and he wanted to put me in handcuffs. my mother had passed away, and i said my downs syndrome brother was in the house. they were going to take me away and leave him there alone. it was a disgrace. what did they arres

there's every conceivable kind of new yorker. >> reporter: some in featured roles were already famousr most, "l&o" was an early stepping stone. samuel jackson, cynthia nixon, veteran new york film and television actor john korks was a defense attorney in the first of three "l&o" roles. >> there's an order to l"law & order" and you sensed that. >> reporter: new york city itself became a familiar character. even these courthouse steps became a touchstone for fans. it's where mccoy would scowl after a tough day or a wrongly exonerated defendant would gloat for the media before being arrested by lenny briscoe, or in one episode i remember, being gunned down by the enraged relative of a victim. for two decades, it thrived on the crime of the day and by the beauty and ugliness of human behavior. >> it's all messed and you loved the mess and that's what it communicated to us. >> reporter: and it repeated its gritty lessons, that justice is hard won, and that sometimes the bad guys won, or the good guys played dirty, just in real life.

. >> new yorkers are busy. we don't care. >> amazing. you can sit at home and watch 16 hours and not learn anything because it doesn't matter. >> for me "law and order svu does" but regular law and order is just something where i turn it on and think, damn it is not svu. and if you are on airplane, that's the only thing that is showing and i hate it. i am happy to see this one go. >> are you going to miss it? >> i don't watch it and i don't care. great for them. i am not going to watch the los angeles one either. >> i have a problem, so i have to go to you. you don't have a tv. >> but i do read sometime. you read to me. the one thing i was strucken by is they were interviewing the crew and the license guys. how twenty years and it is over. they are like, yeah, we know we have been doing this for 20 years and now it is all done what other show -- you were on a knar bc drama for 20 years find one other guy who has had a steady job that long. >> i have two issues and then i have to move on. "law and order" the obvious villain was never the

new yorkers think wright is a better baseman than zimmerman. drives in three runs with bases loaded and zimmerman counters the argument by falling on his behind. a defensive boo-boo allows a run to score. nats lose 10-7. that's a look at sports. i'm brett haber. have a great friday, everybody. >>> a major route in to washington will be closed this weekend. details coming up. federal investigators make plans to release their findings on last summer's deadly metro trash. >>> and our memorial day travel plans offer hints at the direction of the u.s. economy. it is 5:25. angie has the traffic update. >> we are traveling 50 westbound past 97 toward bowie and beyond. finding no problems, no incidents to report. we will have more on the traffic and the weather with devon lucie when we return. stay with us. >>> the university of maryland sends thousands of job seekers in to the market last night. 7100 graduates received their degrees. victoria reggie kennedy was the commence speaker. >>> welcome back to 9 news now. devon lucie is here with weather and

is that money truly available and money that renews each year that we would have to keep new yorkers millions of tourists that come every year safe? >> jamie, there are several issues here, no, the 275 million dollars is not there for new york to take. in fact, last night was the first time that the obama administration or anyone has even made this argument. i met with secretary napolitano on thursday morning and she never mentioned this to me. what they're talking about, all they can be talking about is money that's going through the funding process. money which is being delayed by the department of homeland security itself. one quick example, there's a 38 million dollar grant to harden the tunnel from new jersey to new york and that was supposedly made available in 2008. we can't get a penny of that, because the department is not yet completed its environmental i am fact statement because that's a historic tunnel so any money that's not used is held up and for them to take this cheap shot is really disgraceful. do you think that mayor bloomberg would be holding 270 million dollars i

new yorkers think that wright is a better third baseman than zimmerman. that is the bases loaded double income the first. zimmerman counters the argument by falling on his behind. rare defensive boo-boo from zimm. nats lose 10-7. that's a look at sports. have a great friday, everybody. >>> and one other note from last night's game, team owner mark learner needed a couple of stitches. he got hit in the face by a ball during practice. he said he lost the ball in the sun. >>> in ten minutes, jessica doyle will break down the recent market slide and gives us a look ahead. >>> here's angie with the rush hour update. >>> we are crossing the sousa bridge in to the district. no problems in the city but coming up the tieups outside the beltway. >>> a little crisp here this morning but definitely warmer once we go to mid-morning and the rest of the day. beautiful friday to end up this week and then talk about the rain chances for the weekend forecast. all of this went we return. [ female announcer ] welcome to busch gardens williamsburg, where d.c. goes to get away

many new yorkers are attuned to that. n we were in new york city the subway system was always our main priority. i can tell you between wall street, times square, grand central station, we never lost focus on those key places. as commissioner kelly said, a lot of cops down there. but, again, that can't prevent it. you cannot have zero risk in new york city. we don't want that because this is an inviting place. we want people to come to new york city. but we're going to do everything we can do to protect it. >> greatly appreciate, bob, you standing by with us. roger as well and michael, we know you're reacting to the breaking news as it develops. quite honestly before the evening news we're probably learn much more about this suspect and what he's saying to authorities. joining me now, congressman gregory meeks, a democrat from new york. let me get your reaction to the news and what we've heard from attorney general eric holder as well as secretary napolitano. >> you know, my reaction is i thank god they're working quickly

not as nice as new yorkers, but -- >> no!ally, really wonderful people. >> any hints about what's happening with your character coming up? >> well, i get to play camile ray. she is a pretty strong-willed powerful woman. i do a sort of mutiny thing that prevails. she's fighting for the rights of the citizens, which is very poignant these days. >> fans are crazy about the show. >> yeah. yeah. so much so, like this necklace is actually made by one of my twitter fans. >> wow! >> she sent it to me. it is a stargate. i didn't realize it. i feel like i'm so stargate out between all the circles. >> very nice. >> but these are really die-hard fans and there's nothing like science fiction fans. >> i am one myself. thanks so much. >> thanks so much. you can tune in to "sgu stargate" coming up on sci-fi, coming up on fridays, 9:00, 8:00 central. >>> how about a check of the weather? >> let's see what's happening as far as your weather's concerned. looking ahead to the weekend, rain in the northeast. some showers in the pacific northwest.

but there is no institute for new yorkers' spirit.hat makes me proud that it's business as usual. people are going around, enjoying the city and enjoying our great country. >> larry: at that hearing today at that press conference, eric holder, the hhs secretary napolitano, representatives of the fbi, nypd were present. what do you make of the absence of the intelligence community, charlie? >> i guess they're so intelligent they didn't show up. but quite frankly, i did not follow pete when he was saying that all of these committees who worked so well together how they do it, i don't know, and i don't really want to know. all i know is that the system has worked. it continues to work after that terrible tragedy of 9/11. there has been a few incidents and even those foreclosed the ability of these people to hurt us. i don't care who shows taunt press conference. all i want to do is make sure that the security works. and god has been good to us. it has been working. >> larry: congressman king, holder says new york city is still under cons

i want to make clear that we will not tolerate any bias or backlash against pakistani or muslim new yorkers. all of us live in this city, and among any group there is always a few bad apples. >> reporter: new york city police said this was the 11th time that a plot to attack the city has been disrupted since 9/11. >> brown: for more we turn first to mark hosenball, investigative correspondent for "newsweek" magazine. he joins us from new york. >> brown: you just came out of the courtroom where charges against shahzad were made. >> he's not going to appear today, i have had that confirmed by officials, there were 20 reporters and we sat for three hours while other cases were called, and then nobody told us anything. nobody said he's going to be on. nobody said he wasn't going to be on. about 5:00, basically, everybody left having concluded it wasn't going to happen today. i'm told it may not even happen tomorrow. it does appear one of the reasons, at least, is that he's still talking to investigators, or vice versa. >> brown: you did learn, i guess, more today about how the government tracke

but we're also grown-ups and we're new yorkers at heart, and we know, it's going to happen from time to time. and then what happened was textbook new york. you had some really street-savvy vendors who did the right thing. they found a cop, the cop investigated. the rest of the cops came. and then the federal government got involved. and then they found this guy within 48 hours. how awesome is that? i mean, we can't say we're safe. we can't say it's completely over. but so far, as the senator said, it has worked wonderfully. we should all be applauding it to this point. and instead, these jackals are braying and making politics out of it. it's -- you know, it's just what they do. >> i want to bring up the point, because you were recently in a discussion on a number of different media levels about the left versus right, and who is saying what. and how it's being said. how would you characterize the sound cuts that i played earlier in had this segment of both limbaugh and beck? the demeanor. it sounded as if they were -- they didn't want the president to win the aany level. >> well, they

in his book "eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet" bill mckibben former staff writer for "new yorker" called for humans to make do with significantly less and concentrate on essentials. politics and prose bookstore here in washington is the host of this event. it is about an hour. >> i'm barbara meade. i am one of the owners here at politics and prose. this evening i want to welcome bill mckibben, one of the most prominent environmental activists in our community. [applauding] bill is a scholar and resident at middlebury college. he is co-founder of the on-line community, 350.org. in case you don't know, the name of the organization 350 comes from the fact that leading scientists have said that only 35 parts per million in the atmosphere is the most that any climate can tolerate. if it goes over that then things are getting very unsafe. more than 20 years ago in his book, "the end of nature," bill mckibben warned about the impact of the destructive practices that could and have led to a global warming. through 12 books in the past 20 years he has continued his witness to the earth's

joke so a reverend centro gives them without a fight there was one that case who has a website in new yorkerosted a picture on his website of what happened to van gogh, the dutch filmmaker who made a film about the oppression of muslim women in the city of amsterdam and two was ritually murdered in the street having shot up his bicycle, he was gutted like a sheep in the roadway. an attached to it an open letter to another good friend of mine koshy ali his wonderful new book, nomad is about to be published tuning her as a refugee from somalia and friend mutilation and forced marriage and secretary in warfare of the oppression that she was next. and i can't even tell you where anymore because she too, like so many of my friends now, in europe in the united states has to go around with a permanent polygraph. where's the people who put fear of van gogh's picture website and say to that makers of comedy central, this is going to happen to you, sign revolution was on.com. there wasn't any fear at all. they seem to fear is that they are the first amendment protects them to. zero if it doesn't exist

. >> kroft: the explosive-laden vehicle that was discovered in times square was something that new yorkersnd their police department had been expecting; they had been waiting and on the lookout for years. car bombs have to be one of your things that worry you the most? >> commissioner ray kelly: yeah, absolutely. i mean, they're... they're mobile. they're relatively easy to... to put together. you don't need much space. you can do it by yourself. >> kroft: we were lucky. >> kelly: yes. a lot of good investigative work here, but we were lucky, no question about that. >> kroft: new york police commissioner raymond kelly says the poorly constructed device might have killed hundreds of people if it had gone off. instead, it took the nypd and the joint terrorism task force just 53 hours to identify and arrest the man who built it. according to the complaint, 30- year-old faisal shahzad, a freshly minted u.s. citizen who had lived here for a decade, slipped off to his native pakistan, where he received explosives training, and returned here on his american passport to carry out the attack. >> ke

what does the editor of "the new yorker" no one my third grade teacher said i was going to be a great writer. and i also think back on i used to watch one of the 1930s versions, film versions of the christmas carol. and i think that sort of had an effect on me having some empathy for people like that. but certainly when i got to these letters. >> a specific set of the. first, african-american that you separate them into their own chapter. why is that? why are you telling that? >> there are a few african-american letters and other places, but the ones that are in a separate chapter tell a great deal because the new deal program from franklin roosevelt would need to go so far as to and those -- introduce an anti-lynching bill. they would have filibustered such a bill and so it would not college anything anyway. and he argued and he argued with eleanor. that things that were aimed, programs that were aimed at the war that african-americans were disproportionately among the poor and these would help them. and what programs did include was provisions that there should be no discrimination.

. >> the publication is about four new yorkers.think there is zero little reader a -- a little [unintelligible] i will tell you one i will tellt relates to your newspaper. in 1967, he said, i have to go. he could not get his ticket to fenway park. he said, i will get your ticket for $14. $47. >> you are going the wrong direction. >> she is such a good lawyer. she is able to combine brilliance and practicality. that is a good combination. one of my worries has always been that they are way up in the ivory tower, and they did not quite appreciate the practical consequences on businesses, governments, and people i have known alani kagan is within her goals, and one thing -- alani kagan is within her goals. people say, what kind of experience as she had of thelma -- does she have? she ran an illegal business. -- a legal business. it was like a legal factory, and she ran it with so many egos, and she made it into a well- running, smooth business and my daughter was at yale, and she said, one reason i hope elena kagan is chosen -- [inaud

there are about four new yorkers with opinion said the city. t think there is an equal protection of the law? >> thank you, guys. >> thank you. have a good day. >> hello, again. >> we can go sit over here. do you want to sit here? there were no yankee fans. people say, how can they be from brooklyn in the yankee fan? they better and i was 6 burda -- they left when i was 6. [inaudible] i will tell you one story that relates. in 1967, they moved into here. there is a guy on my floor. i called him up. i will give the difference. i am working my way through. >> thank you. >> the first inning the cardinals left. >> you are going the wrong direction. think you want to go up. a supreme court justice is able to combine municipalities. that is a rare combination produced mind -- combination. but they are where in that ivory tower. they do not quite appreciate the practical consequences of their decisions on government and people. i have no doubt that elena kagan will understand that and understand it instinctively. it is in her bones. people forget abou

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> david remnick is the editor of "the new yorker" magazine. he was a reporter for "the washington post." mr. remnick is the author of "king of the world," about mohamed ali and linens tim, the last days of the soviet empire. for more information, visit new yorker.com. >> from the 2010 los angeles times festival of books, author and talk show host tammy bruce discusses her books books and takes the tv viewer phonecalls. the program is in our. >> joining us here on our steps from outside of haines hall on the campus of ucla is radio talk show host author, tammy bruce. tammy bruce have you ever been invited to do the "l.a. times" festival of books? >> interestingly no. i am a local. might books have done well and i've never been invited to be on a panel or. >> why do you think that is? >> it is par for course. with the president of los angeles through the '90s for the most part and i think that when there is a transition like i have made in this city, which is very liberal, you tend to become like an apostate if you will, but it is imp

other states are kind to new yorkers.>> 60% of people want to do it, why are only 11% signed up? >> because the government has not created a system that's easy, accessible. people sometimes get confused. the information is bad. so you have 67% who want, 11% on the registry. people dying. that's the change we want to make. >> so the first part of it, which wouldn't be as controversial, this would be that if you've signed up to be an organ donor, that if anything should happen to you and you should pass away, your family would not be able to argue against your wish. >> whatever it is you want. just like a living will. >> right. >> you would have the decision. it would last past death, and if you made the decision to donate, as we think people would do, then that would be binding. that's the first change. >> here's where we get more controversial, though, because the next part would be something called presumed consent, which means that when you get your driver's license you have to check a box saying i do not want to be an

. >> the publications is about four new yorkers from different sections of the senate is really very surprising. do you think there is a little protection of the law? >> thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> have a good day. >> hello, again. >> that's why you are for the mets. anyway, there were no -- just sit over here. there were no -- i was a yankee fan. how could you be from brooklyn and be a yankee fan? >> there were no mets. there were no dodgers. the yankees were the only game in town. and the nationals, baseball is everything. so i think the cardinals and they had a st. louis cardinal seat. so it was st. louis cardinals and i'll you one story. so in 1967, they were playing the red sox in boston for the world series. i said i have to go. i couldn't get a ticket at fenway park. there was a guy on my corner, he called -- he said call my father. call my father. he has tickets. he'll get you a ticket. i called him. he said i'll get you a ticket for $47. i didn't have $47. i sell harvard college rings. $47, 47 rings get to $47. first in, lou brock, cardinals left fielder. >> you're going

as a new yorker, mr. president, i see the connection between wall street and main street every day. he financial industry is responsible for 500,000 jobs in new york stivment and moc most of them are not the kind of fancy high-paying jobs you read about or see in the movies. the average salary for these jobs is about $70,000. but i realize that the financial system plays a special role far beyond manhattan. there are many analogies. it's the heart of the comirks the lifeblood, the slashingtory system, the engine of the economy or the oil that greases the gears. whatever image you choose, it's critical to helping businesses grow and innovate and create new jobs. and so our reform must be forward-thinking and strong but not punitive or vindictive or vengeful because that will hurt the whole economy. with the special status of the financial system comes special responsibilities. the industry has reacted to many of the new proposals by arguing that they will kill innovation. but just because we can make cars that go 200 miles per hour doesn't mean we shouldn't have speed limits. in gener

. >> new yorker magazine editor david remnick talks about the life and political career of presidentobama with npr's michele knows that politics and prose bookstore hosted the hour-long event at the avalon theatre in washington, d.c.. >> host: this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at the "washington post" you always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send love notes. and i still remember that. this book was so wonderful to dive into. most people in this room have read much about barack obama. and in every chapter you learn new things about him, but you also learn much about this country. when i first talked to you about this, it wasn't clear that you were writing a biography. i want you to tell me a little bit about the process. how you came to write this particular. was at the book you plan to write? >> guest: i think probably

some you may have made about him, kameron todd, in the "new yorker."sing the quality of indigent defense is an important area for criminal justice reformers to focus on. because that's a way to actually reduce the prison population, it might be possible to get more public support for that than some reduction of sentences. but no, i don't think it will solve all of the problem. deescalating the war on drugs is another area that alaska voters have the opportunity to do something quite momentous, considering the legalization of marijuana, a drug that is by all evidence less harmful than alcohol and trying to change the way we've done sentencing to undo some of the change that is have taken place over the years. but i don't -- i believe personally that we would be better off diverting the resources saved from downsizing criminal justice into the sorts of great society programs that the commission proposed 40 years ago. the last time that american criminal justice was studied comprehensively by a blue ribbon panel. although it's not -- i don't think that by

i'm a new yorker. you may have noticed my accent, i didn't have to say it, but i was also in new york on september 11. and like so many new yorkers we saw firsthand the threat of terrorism right at our doorstep, not just the threat but the reality. and it's that threat and that reality that the people of israel live with every day. they are on the front line. so, yes, it is in our national interest but it also speaks to the very morality and soul of our nation that we stand by our friend, that we stand by our colleague in this world battle and that the is the nation of israel. so this bill is one more step in that statement. it's important for america to do it because if we didn't then we would no longer be america. madam speaker, at this time i have no further request for time and, therefore, yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5327 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2

his innocence, but it's been proven conclusively sense some of you may have read about him in the new yorkerso the question of fairness and in a sense are critical and i think that increasing the quality of indigent defense is an import area for criminal justice reformers to focus on because that's the way to add to reduce the prison population. my possible to get more public support for that than some reduction of sentences, but no, i don't think it will solve all of the problems. the escalating the war on drugs is another area that california voters have the opportunity do something prius momentous next year with considering the actual legalization of marijuana, a drug that is by all evidence less harmful than alcohol. and try to change the way that we've done sentencing to undo some of the changes that have taken place over the years. i believe personally that we would be better off they averted their resources saved from downsizing criminal justice into the sorts of great society programs that the cost about commission proposed 40 years ago, the last time that american criminal justice w