o'keefe. o'keefe paying $100,000 to vera. o'keefe regrets any pain suffered by mr.rlos -- juan carlos vera and his attorney eugene iredale. thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> carlos, what's was it like having your reputation trashed by a network? >> hi. my reputation, i feel, is in the garbage when this action. >> are you glad this is over with? >> yeah, i feel okay. >> you feel okay about the settlement? >> yes. >> is this a victory for you? >> yes, i think so. only i feel sad because acorn not exist anymore and acorn, they have a very good programs. that's why. >> eugene, explain the wrongdoing alleged in the lawsuit. >> well, in california, as in many states in the country, it's illegal to tape record someone without their permission. we have a section of our penal code that makes it a crime to tape record someone without their permission. mr. o'keefe, we feel, knew very well that the law in california prohibited recording without consent. he had been involved earlier in the sting of planned parenthood with a woman named lila rose, and this very secti

vera also contacted police about o'keefe right after the meeting. in truth, he left that part out. and as part of this settlement, o'keefe is unaware to have notified a police officer of the incident. i think that's supposed to be an apology. it's not a very good one. but did james think we didn't know it was wrong? nice try, but we gotchya. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thankyou card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your citi thankyou points to travel whenever you want. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. [ male announcer ] start with nothing, build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like n

and the tape was selectively edited so that it appeared that juan carlos was trying to help o'keefe when what he was doing was playing along to try to get information. >> sure. >> and, in fact, it's not so much o'keefe, but there was a triumverant. andrew breitbart acted as the liaison and it's really fox news which acted as the propaganda outlet that was -- >> yeah, hannity took it hook, line and sinker and ran with it as if there was some kind of journalism done here. seems like there's no oversight with that guy. >> i was just going to say there was no checking whatsoever. there was no verification. in san bernardino, for instance, the acorn employee was a woman. and she heard this ridiculous schpeel that o'keefe and his supposed prostitute girlfriend gave and she said, oh, yeah. well is that all you guys do, underage prostitution? i killed my husband. i shot him in the head. and, of course, that could have been verified one way or another before fox news put it out. and the san bernardino police had to wait until they heard it and then went and talked to both of her ex-husbands who s

not just this. >> thank you, amie and ed o'keefe, appreciate your time. >>> coming up, we'll talk to robert gibbs in about six minutes. >>> the u.s. supreme court released the audio recording of this week's dramatic argument over the voting rights act. the act is one of the most important civil rights laws ever passed. comments made by justice antonin scalia caused an immediate reaction. >> it is attributable, very likely attributable to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. it's been written about. whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political process. >> over the noon hour, we'll hear from ben jealous about the comments and the future of voting rights in this country. >>> one day after being swallowed alive by a sinkhole, a florida man is still missing and feared dead. it happened in the middle of the night when 36-year-old jeff bush was sleeping in his bed. his brother tried to pull him out of a sinkhole but couldn't. you can't see the silk hole, because his house rests on it. this is c

again once the furloughs begin and the service is cut back. >> amie parnes, ed o'keefe. good to see you both. >> thanks, alex. >> here are some other headlines. the hits keep coming for the cruise line carnival after yet another setback out on the open seas. the cruise ship "legend" the latest line to experience technical difficulties. that ship was on the last leg of a seven-day cruise to the caribbean when a malfunction began affecting its sailing speed. on wednesday, it was the carnival ship "dream" reporting difficulties. that ship lost power, lost power rather no one was allowed to get off. carnival agreed to fly about 4,000 passengers back to florida. of course last month a fire in the engine room crippled the "triumph" off the gulf of mexico. more than 4,000 people were stranded at sea with limited food and no air conditioning. that was a nightmare. >>> in steubenville, ohio, the closely watched rape trial involving two high school football players resumes this morning. three teenagers, all of whom were present during the alleged sexual assault, took the stand yes

for more, i am joined by ed o'keefe, who has been reporting on this subject for the "washington post." welcome back to the "newshour," ed. first of all, majority leader reid said he was pulling the plug on this because it just didn't have enough votes. why has it been so hard to get the votes for the assault weapons ban? >> it basically boildz down down to campaign politics. you have 15 senate democrats up for reelection in 2014 and they hail mostly from states in the south and midwest and west that have stronger gun cultures than most, so asking those moderate democrats who are in state that have, you know, strong ghun cultures to vote for things on a ban on almost 160 specific assault rifles is a bridge too far for reid who understands in order to maintain his majority in the senate he has to see most if notal of those senators re-elected. already it is a difficult prospect, and it would be made more difficult, reid fears, if they were asked to vote on this. >> woodruff: when senator feinstein says reid has promised hear, in essence, he will let her introduce an amendment there, wil

. >> i want to bring in ed o'keefe, congressional reporter for the "washington post" and matt welch, editor in chief of "reason" magazine. good to see both of you. ed, let me start with you. president obama just had lunch with paul ryan and the fact that he would come out and start talking about obama care again, something that's not going to happen, its repeal, does it make things harder going forward or is that just kind of what we expect at this stage of the game? >> well, remember that the house republican caucus, many of them were elected and re-elected on the promise of doing something to repeal or cut back on obama care. so for ryan not to include it would be troublesome for his own standing as budget chairman. but you're right, it would certainly seem that this could potentially upend the talks that the president hopes to have with house and senate republicans and house and senate democrats, especially considering the fact that obama care was at the heart of so many of their disagreements in recent years, but we'll see. we say this a lot in washington, chris, but this really

o'keefe, what is the status of the john brennan confirmation? guest: this filibuster happened in part because harry reid had not filed clowe chur on the pick -- cloture on the pick and it didn't happen before rand paul got on the floor and began his 12-hour filibuster. we think it will move to a final vote. . it does appear, though we might have to do a count, that he had the 60 votes necessary but when mitch mcconnel took to the floor after 11:00 last night and said he didn't think that republicans should vote for cloture nor for the nomination itself, one wonders now whether there will be at least five republicans voting with the 55 democrats to approve him. there are even some democrats who could conceivably part ways, but one of those ron white said when he participated in the rand paul filibuster, said that though he had concerns he planned to vote for him. >> can you predict a schedule for us of events in the senate? >> well, we'll see cloture filed at some point. we'll see if the republicans allow for a vote today or delay until perhaps t

power by and acting with these voter id laws going after acorn this kind of pave the way before james o'keefe and really just even the gerrymandering issue that these kind of absurdly drawn congressional districts these state think tanks are defending them saying no this is this is part of this is part of our state now you can't change these borders well and in fact you know democrats across the country running for the house of representatives got one point three million more votes than republicans did in the last election you would think that they would control the house of representatives they don't the republicans do because of the jury mandarin that you just described and that was all done in all driven at the state level of the isn't this really the brilliant strategy and this is kind of howard dean's fifty state strategy this is and i do howard dean strategy except with tens of millions more dollars they simply have more resources and of course liberals have attempted this strategy on the state level but just to a much smaller degree there's this there's talk about investing in think ta

my purpose being on here is i was deputy chief of staff for sean o'keefe at the time of the accident, so, again, as sandy said at the beginning, all of us kind of lived the accident through our own personal lens. and so i'll share mine. we have brian o'connor who is the former chief of the nasa safety and insurance organization. bill parsons who was space shuttle manager for return to flight who had to incorporate a lot of these lessons and dr. julianne mahler who wrote a nice book between challenger and columbia, lessons learned and unlearned which is where i shamelessly stole the title of this symposium from. so i figured i would start with just discussing some of the personal observations and vignettes and then a little bit of simple sis from dr. mahler. as i said, you know, these are sort of my personal impressions of the accident. frankly, i was asleep. and when the phone rang and i got a call from a friend of mine who was at kennedy waiting for the challenger, excuse me, for columbia -- freudian slip there -- for the columbia to return can and said that the vehicle was late. jus

patrick o'keefe is stil with us.12 didn't turn out to be that terrible of a year for job growth. so are we just continuing this trend of kind of not great but not horrible growth? >> you know, it's dangerous to talk about what's happening to the job market three hours before the government puts up the numbers. but, yeah, that's the expectation plotting along. but it's painfully show. we're still 3 million jobs short of the peak before the crisis. we still have millions of americans who have been out of work and are still looking. that is the concern. >> david, is the u.s. economy today better than it was a year ago? >> i think so. the private sector is really beginning to look much healthier. we're not out of the woods yet, but healthier. housing is coming back. we had some data yesterday from the federal reserve that home equity is up. the rising stock market makes people wealthier. there's some stirrings in home construction. auto sales has been strong. it's kind of ironic that the biggest worry in the u.s. economy

and patrick o'keefe.s is felt by their families and colleagues and also by jose giagos who developed a lasting friendship with the men who saved his life. >> i don't have any words to express how i feel about these guys. they live in my heart. i carry them in a very special part of my heart. >> although he now lives in his native colombia, he has come back to the building where he once feared his life would end. >> it was very hot. there was a lot of smoke coming out of all the windows. >> and we have a surprise waiting for him. on the corner of 7th avenue and 48th street. >> oh, man. >> hi. >> it's kevin shay now retired and living in montana. shay and giagos haven't seen each other for many years. >> what a crazy surprise. i'm so happy to see you. >> yes. it's a great surprise. >> for these two men, the experience on the 12th floor of this building has created a bond that will never fade away. >> doesn't it feel much better once you know you're not alone? >> oh, yes. >> almost everything feels better wh

for a sense of what will happen at the federal level, we're joined by ed o'keefe. he's congressional correspondent for the "washington post" and has spent years covering federal agencies. and for some local consequences, we're joined by two journalists from our public media partners: karen kasler is bureau chief for ohio public television; megan verlee is state government reporter for colorado public radio. i want to start with you, ed, with an overview here in washington. where are we seeing or likely to see the most immediate impacts? >> well, we have already gotten some indication from a few agencies this week that their furloughs will begin essentially within a month. we really won't see most of the effects until later in march. and so people should wake up tomorrow morning thinking oh my gosh, the national parks are closed, and the lines at the airports will grow long. we heard this week, for example, the justice department, people who work for u.s. attorneys face furloughs of about 14 days but not until late april. folks at the national labor relations board

. >> joining me now, from washington, ed o'keefe of the "washington post" and at cpac, national harboryland, msnbc's dave weigle who, of course, also writes for the slate. dave, i'm going to start with you, i have been enjoying your blog, blogging from cpac, how did sarah palin's speech go over there? >> it went over very well. this is a crowd that always adored her. always identified with what they feel was an unfair and cruel treatment from the media. you saw that when ted cruz, who was seen as the republican party future thought it necessary to come out and take a little bit of the glory from sarah palin's reputation. it was also a little bit contradictory though, because one of the themes from speeches earlier in the day or the week has been republicans need to stop being the stupid party. palin's big moment, everyone agreed and pulled out their phone to capture was drinking from big gulp. people like her for things like that but it's a little bit hard to square with the rest of the message here. >> ed, made your point that palin seemed to be making is that the gop does not need re

ed o'keefe of "the washington post," a colleague of bob woodward.co, not a colleague of woodward. why did the story even become such a big deal? >> bob woodward is a legend and that always becomes news and then when he actually lays out why he felt potentially threatened or was attacked by the white house in a very blunt and direct way. to some of my political colleagues who reported that issue, it got a lot of attention, but you know, when these emails got revealed that showed that, you know, maybe woodward was overstating the case, and it really sort of blew up in his face and it became a distracting sideshow to the larger issue which was the sequester and the cuts taking effect friday. >> the effects people in this country. the root of this back and forth was the president was responsible first automatic spending cuts. the white house argues he was not. rer republicans say he was. who is correct? who's right? >> oh, man, you will put that to me, craig? it's the $64,000 question in this town this week, right? >> that's why we put it to you. >> exa

his name's sean o'keefe, but the nasa administrator. you could just see him going, wow.n a row for not getting crews back. and so it was extremely tense time for everybody on the heels of columbia. finish. >> with so nikolai and i were talking, and i said, you know, we really ought to try to contact somebody, you know, we didn't have a cell phone. now crews have a satellite phone so they can call as soon as they get out of the vehicle. so i climbed back into the soyuz and started pulling out the rescue equipment, and nikolai promptly started shooting off all the flares, went through most of the russian supply. they had to go out with a new procurement to buy rescue flares for the soyuz. [laughter] and we made contact with the search airplane. the fixed-wing search airplane, their plan if they don't make contact with the crew is to start working to the short part of the cycle figuring a ballistic entry is the most likely scenario. and they started working their way to us, and about two hours after we landed, we were able to talk with the rescue airplane and tell them ever

ed o'keefe is with the washington post, congressional reporter. what is the status on the john brennan nomination? guest: it is out of the intelligence committee and is waiting for votes. the filibuster happened in part because harry reid had not yet filed cloture, which was expected to happen at some point on wednesday and it did not happen before rand paul took to the floor and began his 12th hour filibuster. at some point today we expect harry reid will file cloture and begin the process of moving to a final vote. although we might have to do a more revised count after last night's spectacle, it appears that he has 60 votes necessary. but when mitch mcconnell took the floor after 11:00 last night and said that he did not think republicans should vote for cloture nor for the nomination itself, now one wonders if there will be five republicans voting with those 55 democrats. and even some democrats could conceivably part ways. ron wyden, of oregon participated in the rand paul filibuster. he was planning to vote for john brennan, though he had co

his name is sean o'keefe, the nasa administrator. you could just see him go wow. two in a row for not getting the crew back. so it was extremely tense time. for everybody on the heels of columbia. >> so, nikolai and i were talking, and i said we really ought to try to contact somebody. we didn't have a cell phone. now crews have a satellite phone so they can call as soon as they get out of the vehicle. so i climbed back into the soyuz and started pulling out the rescue equipment. nikolai started to probably shoot off all the flesh. went through most of the russian supply. had to go out with a new procurement to buy flares. we had to make contact with the searcher playing. the plane, one of their plans if they don't make contact with the crew is to start working to the shore part of the cycle, figuring a ballistic entry is the most likely scenario. they started working their way through it. about two hours after we landed we were able to talk with the rescue to point and tell them everything is fine, and shortly after that the kind of flew by and about three hours

i think sean o'keefe was in the navy corps and would not have asked for a non-navy person to take over. the board quickly assembled by the afternoon of february 2 and held their first meeting. there were pictures and scots video of that first meeting at barksdale air force base in louisiana. and quickly decided that they needed to be near nasa in houston so moved to louisiana to houston and a couple of days and then when the investigation was done the court being moved here where we did most of the report writing. remarkable experience and the people that did it from day one with a report released on august 26 at 2003 were working at least six the days a week if not seven and certainly more than eight hours a day. the first thing the board did was to figure out that the way the plan had been set up, there was not provision for adequate independence and so there were three iterations with a revision of the charter to the board to guarantee that it could carry out a totally independent investigation with its own budget, its own staff, a staff that nasa maintaining independent records. th