>> stephen: the state of north dakota may not exist. it's like south dakota's canadian girlfriend. she's up north supposedly really cool and beautiful, but nobody has ever seen her. this shocking revelation comes from 82-year-old john robinski, who noticed a discrepancy while reading the north dakota state constitution because that's the most exciting thing to do in north dakota. [laughter] he's a thrill seeker. now, turns out the u.s. constitution requires all state legislators, executives and judicial officers to swear an oath of allegiance to uphold the u.s. constitution. but north dakota's state constitution omitted that requirement for its governor, which means technically north dakota isn't a state, which brings me to threat number three, fake states. nation, and i'm not talking to you, north dakota, there are now over 670,000 foreigners masked

matt's roots are deep in north dakota. he returns every chance he gets with his family, his wife and his children, elderly come and meet and will come his sister, susan, is with us as well. as i said, i've known this family for a very long time coming and they are the best that it gets. his father was the chief of staff to the man the white defeated for the united states senate. and so i know how good he really is. van passed away three years ago, but i know he's looking down with a twinkle in his eye today proud of matte and all that he has accomplished. you know, after defeating the boss for the united states senate, i came here with some trepidation of what my relationship might be like with a van and his wife, the treated me with the greatest courtesy over time the cancer indifference. the highest quality people that our state has to offer, and i believe that the highest quality of people in the country. these are the americans through and through. you're father would be so proud of you at this moment. he would be look

north dakota, you can see showers in the mountains of wyoming. we can see thunderstorms as we head throughout the afternoon. a closer look at some of these showers going through idaho. light stuff right now. this is where we can see the stronger stuff by this afternoon. you can see the stronger stuff right there. also in parts of north dakota. starting out in the cool side, it is warm in salt lake city. casper checking in at 69. the forecast for today, mostly cloudy skies in seattle. all up and down the pacific northwest. >>> all right. not too bad, although looking at some strong storms in the northern plains. that would be the hot spot for today. >> good thing to keep an eye on. >>> consumer spending dries up. at&t makes promises, and talk about ceos you're probably not going to like. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> what's forcing george clooney to give up a coveted upcoming film role. >>> coming up, ryan howard hits the century mark. benches clear, and you want basketball? we got it. you're watching "early today."

cnbc's brian shackman is live in kill dear, north dakota. how does this work? like this. you're in the baake next shale deposit. there's 24 billion barrels of recoveriable oil. billions of investment dollars have come in creating thousands of jobs. we have a dynamic in willston, north dakota where they have more jobs than people available. they don't have housing for people. they're paying $15 at a local mcdonald's because everyone wants to work in the oil business. the walmart is understaffed. they sell out of things every day. unbelievable stories. one story a man came in from spokane, washington, they stayed overnight in the walmart parking lot. woke up, got a job for $90,000, he was making $30,000 a year before. one day he has a job fracing. >> i've got to ask about the environmental concerns. >> reporter: it is an issue. if it was restricted this place would go away. right now there's no big picture environmental concerns. they're going full bore, full speed ahead with it. right now it's no problem out here. >> brian, thank you so much. proosht it. love th

the meeting announcements that went out at the time i was in north dakota. and that was you know it's not a it's not a large state it's not a particular state because it is a large state such a populous state but it but they are very politically active in north dakota has traditionally been at the forefront of a lot of different movements for the last hundred years so i was interested in going to some of these meetings i went to a couple and originally i was very sympathetic they were basically people who for the last i would say twenty years been getting screwed. kind of the direction. of american economics for more attention to wall street and start profits and less attention to a middle class income. but so when was it they were you decided that the fiscal issues when it came to of course like i said protesting lottery bell out protesting health care reform now not liking the debt ceiling to be raised what is it that you decided that it was really more about religion and more about creating a christian nation is that. well i think that the good of the thr

in fact, congress also started frequently making these new states with seven degrees of width; north dakota, south dakota, wyoming, colorado, washington and oregon all have seven degrees of width. washington and oregon, you know, give or take because of the coast. others come close to seven degrees of width. so we have this prototype of jefferson that emerge. so we go from jefferson to robert lucas to samuel vinton to steven douglas, and jefferson returns to the american map. well, here he is again. when you leave here today, you will know why stephen douglas was famous before he debated a one-term congressman who lost the election and two years later ran for president. um, the other piece of legislation that dealt with slavery that stephen a. douglas was a great participant in was the compromise of 1850. that was a package of five bills, and he was involved in two of them in particular, but the one i want to talk about is texas. texas went it entered the union, it had been a republic and was much larger than the texas we have today. it continued further north all the way to wyoming taperin

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in new hampshire, a state with no income tax, and, of course, a higher unemployment rate than north dakota. huntsman's campaign says scaling back regulation, including epa regulation, will be a major part of his jobs creation plan, because it will create certainty. joining me now is jonathan capehart, msnbc contributor, thanks for joining me tonight, jonathan. >> hey, lawrence, nice to be with you. >> jonathan, it's hard out there for a president trying to talk about the economy when you have these republican candidates able to say whatever they want, beginning with the really wild bachmannism of i can turn this whole thing around in 90 days. how can the president change his rhetoric and how does he have to change his rhetoric to deal with the world where bachmann is considered a credible economic manager? >> she is at this point a credible republican candidate for the nomination for president. i think the president has to keep doing what he's always been doing, that's being the adult in the room. i know that's taken on an aura because people want to see him get mad, get angry, fight a lit

we share a border with north dakota and barely missed visiting the mayor of oslo, north dakota. their entire town, they had a dike and that is the only way that they survived the flood. i appreciate the difference that weather forecasts have made. st. paul, minn. -- decisions were made because we had so much flooding, how high the sandbags have to be, completely based on these forecasts. and they're completely dependent on them and made a huge difference in reducing damage and the loss of life. i must applaud what the weather bureau is doing. a tornado with the bleachers were found two blocks away. not one person died there. this is all neighborhoods for the got the warnings, the sirens went off 25 minutes at a time. a couple with 40 kids with only life scart -- high-school lifeguards. the high school kids to across the street to a basement. this is because of emergency warning. basements made the difference. in some unique things that we're doing with let's now, literally there are cameras on the flooded areas and towns all over our state so that citizens can watch the river so

in 1883 one of the few places they roamed was in the badlands of the north dakota territory. he hired a guy, spent three weeks riding around hunting for bison. he developed an infatuation for the badlands, the weird formations there, the remoteness of the area appealed to him. it was a rich grassland so you could raise cattle in the area, and also there's the hunting. dakotas were one of the last places to find most of america's big game animals and shoot them. before returning home, roosevelt wrote a check for $14,000 and turned it over to two men he met up there and told them to buy cattle for them and put them loose on the land they claimed on their own and would manage the cattle for him and take a share of his profits. he was trusting in this. he told the man, if i didn't trust you, i would not give you the money. they asked, how do you know you can trust us? he said, i just do. at that time, a lot of wealthy easterners were investing in cattle. roosevelt thought he found a way to make money quickly without any risks, so now his uncle james roosevelt, his financial advis

. >> and joining us now is north dakota republican senator john hoeben who voted yes in favor of the bill. senator, first, explain your vote. >> thanks for inviting me to be with you. this is an important step forward. this is the first step we've said for any increase in the debt ceiling we've got to have safings. we've got to have reduction to get our financial situation, our fiscal house back in order to get on top of the deficit and debt. very important step forward. more work to do. at the same time we do have to focus on growing this economy, stimulating private investment and job creation. >> now you're a former governor and you know the impact this is going to have on the states. i want to ask something about what lindsey graham told chuck and i a bit ago. he said that he sees a shift, a philosophical shift in the republican party against support for the armed services against defense spending. his concern for the trig ere is it really would place huge burdens on defense and that he is less eager to take that hard and fast no tax pledge. he sees ways where loopholes could be

a storm system could bring powerful thunderstorms to parts of montana and north dakota.he great lakes will have showers and a few thunderstorms, the desert southwest could see an isolated storm or two as will south florida. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories on a wednesday, floodwaters from hurricane irene have washed out more than 250 roads in vermont and cut off a dozen towns, a similar story in new jersey, more than 600 people had to be rescued from the floods. >>> a growing wildfire in dry north texas has destroyed at least 20 homes and a fast moving grass fire in oklahoma city burned ten others. >>> a remarkable story of survival and recovery an arizona man fell face first on to a pair of pruning shears that ended up half way into his head. tucson station klod has the story. >> when i felt up there, i sort of pulled on it a little and seemed real solid so i left it alone and realized that it was clipper. >> reporter: 86-year-old leroy leutcher fell onto the clippers, the handle went through his right eye socket. >> there was blood all over, anyway

we're getting drenched in southwest sections of iowa and also in north dakota. a pretty good line of storms just barely went through bismarck. worst of it was to the south of town. now it's traveling on interstate 94 in fargo. probably about an hour or two from now you'll get wet weather. hot in texas and what a nice day in chicago, 83 and sunny. tomorrow, lynn, the 83 and sunny will head to new england, we'll enjoy it tomorrow. >>> well, google jump-starts the week on wall street. your "first look" at the morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, jim thome jones an exclusive club. the dodgers find a new way to speed up the season and push comes to shove on the racetrack, you're watching "first look." [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. ♪ the front-row tickets you never bought. the lucrative investment you never made. the exotic vacation you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus rx. but only until se

north dakota has the nation's lowest: 3.3% as we continue our series, how to fix the economy, tonight we focus on jobs. darren gersh reports on some out of the box solutions that could boost job growth. >> reporter: if there aren't enough new jobs to go around, how about this: instead of laying off one worker, reduce the hours of four or five people. and then use unemployment benefits to make up some of the lost pay. it's called job sharing and economist dean baker says preventing a job from being lost is as almost as good as creating a job. >> it doesn't make sense to say the government is going to pay you to be completely unemployed with unemployment benefits, but it's not going to pay you, if you are working short hours. so why not have that option available to firms, available to workers. it's really very much a conservative idea. >> reporter: another creative way of thinking about jobs is to focus on helping improve the skills and mobility of workers who have lost jobs in hard-hit industries like construction. wells fargo chief economist john silvia says people who have lost thei

they're very happy in north dakota.employment-rich state. meaning job opportunities are going out there. that was one of the factors the study measured. last place, sorry to all our viewers this morning in west virginia. they're not doing too well. they're at the bottom of the list here. >> maybe we should all rent "fargo" again and see what was the draw. i can't remember. >> what was it? so happy on there, north dakota. >>> all right. now, this next story is not for the squeamish. >> this story is foul. >> rob didn't want to touch this one. >> no. huh-uh. >> but there is a trend among new moms to eat their placenta. now, before you turn off the tv, let me explain. apparently, there are lots of nutrients in the placenta that can help new moms with postpartum depression, that can aid in breast milk production and lactation. it can act as a uterine tonic. it is prepared as a vitamin capsule. >> oh, you don't bite into it like a slim jim? it's actually a pill? >> no. although you can eat it that way. and one father apparen

sent it out a few times to get news footage of alabama after devastating storms hit there and in north dakota after floods so if news corp can get a drone can anybody any news organization any private company well that's the exact question that our guest tonight has been trying to figure out joining me from our studio in new york is kashmir hill staff writer at forbes katherine i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i know that you have been digging into this trying to get to the bottom of the whole story fairly it's a no go for commercial use of drones at this point but when you asked the f.a.a. about news corp drone in particular what do they tell you. they were surprised by the use of the drone news corp when i first they kind of. asked whether a hobbyist have flown the drone and given the footage to the daily and i said no this is a drone that the daily owens and after i told them about they said that they're actually going to be launching an investigation to see whether their use was legal or not how do we have any idea how the daily actually got their hands on this drone

with a positive score on the economic home confidence index the next two most confident states north dakota and nebraska with negative thirteen and negative sixteen points respectively i guess i want to get your interpretation of the story behind these numbers. well washington d.c. is the economic ideal the rest of the country should be a lot of people there are working a lot of people there have government jobs which means they have retirement benefits they have a secure income they have the right not to be arbitrarily fired and on and on and on and so washington d.c. is a little mini country that is the country the united states used to be and it's days of greatest prosperity and a lot of you again so naturally they're feeling good about themselves the washington d.c. economy is being infused with national security money and other kinds of government money contractors are doing great in the military and security areas the government jobs are are still there so believe me i don't want this to turn into a diatribe against government because i think government is a great participant in socie

it is an extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as horace greeley might have is a young man. he is compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction and we will get to that. but before we head off into the badlands i want to give aid reef background on theodore roosevelt, the roosevelt aficionados will probably be familiar with this but i heard there were high points in his life we need to touch him. started life as a city kid in new york city and he was a member of the abbey social elite, the knickerbockers here where people who could trace their ancestry american back to the dutch that arrived in the mid-1660s. he was a fairly old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. the family made their money on glass. they produce a lot of the wind of glass that york city needed as they grew. there were also into banking and a lot of wise investments in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoors person almost from childhood and also an avid hunter, but he

on north dakota in recent years.ng about regulation, i'm not up on the details, but i think the obama administration has recognized the concern about some regulations. an order that was going to roll back or hold back some regulations in the last week or two. clearly republicans in congress, the chamber of commerce here in d.c., have been very active in making those issues well known. host: last week on "washington journal," steve forbes talked about his thoughts on quantitative easing and the strength of ben bernanke's handling of the monetary policy. take a look at what steve forbes had to say and then get some reaction from scott lanman of bloomberg news. >> i'm look forward to, i hope, minimal damage. it was a year ago that the chairman announced what they call qe-2, quantitative easing two, and it ended up doing the economy more harm than good. there's plenty of liquidity in the financial system. we just got to remove the headwinds, the barriers that just stand in the way of creating an environment where this mo

presiding over a local commodity boom is the best qualification for government, then the governor of north dakota with its 3% unemployment rate should be your guy. joining me now is jim hightower, former agricultural commissioner of texas, and erica greider, for many this is their introduction, rick perry, of course, you ran against perry in his first successful statewide race, he beat you, how did he beat you and what did you learn from it? >> actually, chris, it wasn't he who beat me, it was carl rove. in order to run against me, the chemical lobby and other special interests were offended in our state that i had promulgated some pesticide regulations to help family farmers and consumers to help farm workers, so they were out to get me. and carl rove basically sent perry out to west texas to roam around from one farmer meeting to the next. he put $3 million dollars into one of his patented negative campaigns to come after me, but the significant thing about perry is that he has become a formidable campaigner, but not anything really when you probe it all that strong. for example, he won reelect

if you're qualified for assistance out of a tornado that happened in the spring or flooding in north dakota this late spring, that continues. this means that all individuals claims will be funded. >> and there have been 10 separate billion dollar natural disasters in the united states had -- and that is a record. >> flights to and from the east coast are finally getting back on the ko.. >> and not only people, virgin america had to post tone a flight today that would have transported abandoned chihuahuas to a shelter in new york. this morning, virgin announced a no chihuahua left behind sale. >> pledging 25s frdz every mexico ticket sold to support future air lifts like this one. >> and this next story under thing that's don't inspire confidence when flying. >> yeah. it seems pilots are forgetting how to fly, they say it's weakened pilot skills to the point where some don't know what do if a plane stalls. >> they call it auto maigs addiction and they say it's caused hundreds of airline deaths. the study found in smaller carriers, pilots only have manual control of the plane for 80 seconds o

this bichon belongs to the chairman of the budget committee, north dakota senator kent conrad, and is is better dressed, dakota or kent? >> dakota. >> dakota. ♪ >> that's a beautiful dog. it really is. >> reporter: those bells we hear all day are part of an elaborate system of alarm clocks and buzzers around the building designed to keep members on track to vote. >> dakota, welcome. come on in, dakota. kent, you stay out. >> reporter: when the buzzer goes on, members hustle to the floor. congressional gridlock all along the route and in the elevators. an underground rail system was first installed a century ago to expedite their journey. >> the subway is more like a quaint, antique toy train. it's more disneyworld than it is new york, more mr. rogers than buck rogers, but there's no fare, trains run all the time, and it gets you there. it does the job. >> reporter: on the day of our visit, no one is going anywhere in the house to vote on the debt ceiling. >> it's going to be much later than i thought. >> reporter: the speaker has yet to win enough support to get his bill passed. comin

nebraska is doing well, north dakota is doing well. not because of the governors in that state. it's because of indodge nous thing -- indigenous things that have happened in those states. can perry stand up to the full national spotlight. i cannot tell you -- i've done reporting in texas. i know people in texas politics. there are so many people in that state that hate him so much. i'm not talking about liberal democrats, republicans, conservatives. he's almost unanimously loathed in the state of texas by the political class by the political spectrum. can he come bopping around the country when trailing behind you is this chorus of people talking about what a terrible job you've done in texas. >> what a terrible job you've done in texas. let's just name it. the oh things that the conservatives and the republicans say about rick perry in texas is they personally have no confidence in him in terms of his intellectual capacity. that's what it is. you get unsourced republican and conservative quotes out of people who hate him calling him dumb as a bag of rocks. many people -- that's

north dakota, i got to tell you, almost the entire state under some kind of a flood alert and the texas count continues. what does that mean? i'm talking 100-degree days in a row, dallas, texas, so far this year, 35 in a row. your record 42, and then you go over to waco, texas, so far 37, the record is 42. by this time next week, no relief in sight. waco will have set a new record and the heat continues up into portions of missouri, feels like temperature is about 115, if not hotter. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. all right, everybody, wherever you are, make it a great saturday. jeff, nancy, a side note for you here, chance of storms, about 82 degrees today in lichtenstein. >> recurring theme. the weather has been so active lonnie lost the voice. >> a little football coaching on the side does this. >> everything's better in liechtenstein. >> elaine, please remove liechtenstein from your news block. >> good morning to you at home. >>> the state department is urging all americans in syria to leave immediately. this as the

there are so many oil and gas jobs in north dakota.ou look at income levels. 42% or 31 million americans lived in low-income cfamilies i 2009, and that's an increase from 2007. what stood out about the study, randi, 31 million kids live in low income families, and also 5.3 million kids were affected by foreclosures since 2007. that means their home entered the foreclosure process. what this is showing us is the trickle down affect of the recession and the jobs crisis that the president just addressed and what that is doing to kids in america. when you look at it from that point it's obviously very troubling. >> yeah, not just those unemployed but families and children behind it as well. that's disturbing information. poply harlow in new york, thank you. >>> a world class restaurant and youth looking for direction. see how they both come together next. >>> first, the results are in, we have the money magazine list of the best places to live. we look at some of the small towns. can you guess which one we are highlighting today? >>> if yo

i go back to my roots of fargo, north dakota, and i think of senators -- what would he do if he was facing an avalanche of $8 or $9 million, in a rural area, in a small town? i just find it absolutely -- put on the tv, lawrence, without seeing one bad ad over another, you can't turn on the radio without hearing one bashing ad over the other, it's one of the archives, it's exciting being -- >> ed, the polls close at 9:00 p.m., how quickly will they get the votes counted in these districts? >> that's a great point, there are some election experts here in wisconsin that think this is going to roll in pretty fast, that we may have all totals in by 11:00 p.m. eastern time tonight, and so i think we're going to have some conclusions here within the next probably 90 to 120 minutes. i think it's going to roll in pretty fast. there really have been no stories of any kind of real voter problems. down and that was quickly replaced and the county clerk assured everyone all the votes were counted and everyone in line was able -- >>> coming up, everyone has criticized president obama for not doing enoug

badlands of dakota territory in what is now closed against the montana border, and extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as horace greeley might have urged as young man. he was compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction will get to that. before we head off into the badlands, i want to give you a brief background on theodore roosevelt, the roosevelt aficionado. i think there are some high points in his life that we need to touch on. he started life as a city kid in new york city and was a member of the social elite, the knickerbockers who were people who could treat their ancestry in america back to the dutch were raised here in the midst 1660s. it is a fairly old new york family here his grandfather was one grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. they produced a lot of the window class at new york city needed as a group. they were also into thinking and a lot of wise investment in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an outdoors person, almost from childhood and also an avid hunter, but he wasn't very healthy. he was very sickly as a child. h

on north dakota in recent years.king about regulation, i'm not up on the details, but i think the obama administration has recognized the concern about some regulations. an order that was going to roll back or hold back some regulations in the last week or two. clearly republicans in congress, the chamber of commerce here in d.c., have been very active in making those issues well known. host: last week on "washington journal," steve forbes talked about his thoughts on quantitative easing and the strength of ben bernanke's handling of the monetary policy. take a look at what steve forbes had to say and then get some reaction from scott lanman of bloomberg news. >> i'm look forward to, i hope, minimal damage. it was a year ago that the chairman announced what they call qe-2, quantitative easing two, and it ended up doing the economy more harm than good. there's plenty of liquidity in the financial system. we just got to remove the headwinds, the barriers that just stand in the way of creating an environment where this