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. >> the attac on pice buildings an government offis began onunday.ut tension had been rise fog some tim northern niger has aong history of ethnic and religious differences. this time the violence is blamed on group of islamic militants. the security forcesre said to be looking for mohammed yusuf. in a clime of suspicion and fear, the autrities have now stped up security acrs the rth ofhe country with road blocks and occur fuse. thareas affected by the unrest he been seral. but so of the worstiolence has been in the citof maidugur although mill tans is said to be declining. >> they are anti-government and ti-people. we don know what they are planning yet. we are out to identify and arst their leaderand also to destroyheir enclave. >> thishas been theeadliest second taryne violencen nigeria since late last year when seval hundred ople were killed in direct clashes between christians d mlims. nigeria's rurn to cvilian rule in 1999 ushered in a period opolitical liberalization, but i has allowemilitants from religious and ethnic groupso express their fru

there a surprising annoue the over the weekend that the governor alaska, sarah h palin leaving g the offi. she's ststping dn, governor -- [ applause ] sothing i said? >> papalin's attorney, thos van kline, ansring in the affirmatate, telng cnn that letterman's jojos contributed to the governor's dedecision to st down. quot when people don't accept normal b bounds decency making jos like that about chdren, ybe th is not good for thehe state right n and maybe somebody else who isis not the suect and whoseamily is not the subject of this scctiny can mo the state forward. let's turnrnow to our own eugege robinson, aociate editor and litzer prize-winning colulumnist of "the washington post.t. gene, good e evening >> good evevening, keith. >> before we getstarted, any chance you used to live in aska, too? >> no,, you gotot me there. i did, howevever, used to work the partment of w. >> oh,h, we a did. that's where iot my start. this ithe main stlstream media' ult. it's the fault o of the late-nit comemedians. it's theault of the bloss os fear. it's's the flt of anyone who estions her ethics. it'

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a neurosurgeon whopens an offi in philadelphia has paybout200,000 per year on insurance alone, and who pays you pay and i pay. md -- every doct knows how mu testing and procedures are a way to prevent a lossy. why don't democrats thk about it? -- why don't democrs speak abouit? because tal lawyers around them -- own them. >> if the patient -- if the neosurgeon screws up, doesn't a patient's family have legal recourse? >> there is no diffence between states that hava cap, like texas, d states that do not. >> when jay rockefeller, a democrat, says he is being priced out of the democratic process, you have oblems with ur own party, don't u? >> he was quitecritical of the chairman. >> of max bcus. >> he is the chairman of the health subcommittee he says the democrats including hielf, and systetically cluded by in max baucus inn effort to entice repuicans and ma this a bipartisan. it wld be ne ifit was bipartisan, but in the final analysis, they havto come up wi a bill. >>he reblicans, ifou listen to jim mint and james in half -- james inhofe, are saying that belong to the stes, the better

. >> look where wewere six months ago when we ook offie. we inrited the largt economic cris since the 30's. what i refer to asnot the great deprssion but the geat recession because was the single greatt recession we'v had modern time, dwafing others. gwen: so, dborah, who's right? >> i think they're actually bo right. you'vegot a situation here where the obam administrati was ung figures bac in january when tey were con eam -- contmplating the stiulus that baically seem outdat. they had not predicted double-digit unemployment. th president said if we on't pass it, we'llhit double-digit. ll, a -- prt of the problem is what the stimulus diddo. joebiden issayingwait, 10% is ou the doornd it's gog to take a whle for it to wok. othereconomists are saing we need more now. the consensus opinio among economists i don't do more now cause whatever yo do it's going to be oo late and we have a huge deficit probem that's going to make i hard to y for the gwen: s did the white house overpromise this a a job bill so they're hoited on their own petard? >>

. >> the targeting o government offis, part of what happened today. i presume, as you say, tt's to show that the goverent isn't inontrol andis fail in that regard? >> well, that's right. i think the talibanare nervou abo theupcoming election if they are successful. a so they'rerying to disrupt those in any way that they can. and i think it's important to remember that these electis areeing run by the afghans. sohey have really taken nership. the 20 election were run by t international comunity. hans are reallytaking t ownership and they're actuly critical in denstrating that he taliban don't have suppor that the people do suppor a democratic politil process and thtaliban knows that an that's why theyre tryingo disru the atmphere. >> lisa curtis, thanyou very much. >> thank you. >>> me than 60 people rertedly have been killed during three days of cl between pakistani governnt troops and tiban militts. t fighting'seen raging across the border from afghanistan and the lower deer region of pakistan. that borders the swat valley, where the kistani governme

gwen: good evenin it's one the perks of the offi -- jetting off on air force one, visiting paces and daschas d castles, even king the kids along. but don't think for evenne minute that it's a lot of fun, because everywhe president oba went this week, he discovered there was notne single magicand to be had. so whether the discussion s about nucleaweapons in iran climate change around the world, the americapresident came ay with a little less than he hoped. so was tht a reali check fr the any preident, doye? >> gwen, eve honeymoon comes toan end one day. last year wen he went overses, thestreets of european cities were ful of people who were love. everyther head of tate wanted to get into te picture th him. this time itwas a little different. he went to russia. had some tough meal -- meetgs. we to italy, had soe meetings tha made modest progress on a couple issus, and we iscovered tht charm is great, charisma is great, popularitis great, b other countries have other intests and they're going t stick with them and th barack obama at the d of date is going o have to could s diplomacy by

dropped th bom -- gwen: congression budget offi. >> exactly he basically dropped the bomb that he sd none of the big bills on e table would actuay do much o decrease the costs of healtcare. that was very salient and thats what really got us started and is contnuing this week, in a way he oened the door bit for the republins and the conservative and moderate democratsto step in and say, ok, that exactly what i needed to her, here's my linin the sand. we're talking the replicans but in th senate the democrats ifthey were to ve all their members healthy d in town have 60votes, enough to get past a filibusr. what's happening wih them? why are the republica able to have a influence on this process given that? >> acually, there e two reasons. one is that you do have morate and conservativ democratwith real concern in the nate. you lo at senaor conrad who runs the budgetcommittee. he is a -- hes very conerned about the pric tag and making sure you do something about cost but in aition to that, the sate finance committee here a t of this is goin on has a traditi of bipartisanship. and in thi

turn to some local news and a shootout that injured three people including a young .la capitol police offi th shots rang out last night in greenbelt. pamela brown has the latest. >> police say two men and a male roommate got so heated they crashed through their apartment window. the officer ran away to call 911. the roommate went inside to grab the service weapon. he began shooting randomly in the parking lot. an off-duty capitol police officer just happen to be pulling into the parking lot and began shooting back. >> as a result of that exchange of gunfire, the off-duty u.s. capitol officer was shot. >> a 12-year-old girl was grazed by one of the bullets. >> me and my family live right there on the bottom floor. she got shot through the building. >> i've been here two months and there has been so much happening. i have kids. this happened in broad daylight. >> that was pamela brown reporting. the 12-year-old girl was treated and released from the hospital. the men are still in a hospital. >>> the man shot and killed by the police on wednesday it was no stranger to the law. 27-year-old kel

they're saying is if the executors are in full control, what if they commit some kind of a breach offy. the court said $1 million should be enough. i don't think it's enough. this estate is worth billions of dollars. >> i want to go to mary margaret, senior news radio editor on-line. i want to ask you about the chef. what do we know about this chef? what did the chef, the chef to michael jackson see or hear? >> the chef was with michael jackson about a month in may and what was interesting is he got an inside look at the oxygen tanks being wheeled in and out of michael jackson's home as well as the physician who had to be there five nights a week to monitor him. >> and isn't it true, dr. michael bell, to use the diprivan which is used in surgery, the anesthetic, wouldn't you have to have oxygen administered too? >> i would certainly have it on hand just in case your oxygen level goes low. >> are you ready to fight for your kids, debbie? are you ready to fight for your children? >> do not touch me. >> nobody touched you here. >> you just did. don't. >> are you ready to fight for your ch

want me to make a positive difference and fight for all our childn's future om outside the vernor's offi? i'm igining little piper there saying yes, my vote's yes, mama. >>ho ows whats on in the palinkitchen. i thk that my coeague, y casey put itbest, nobody quits their job unless they have a gamelan. i thinkhe's t. it's because you got a plan. >> it's hd to find another job if you've just quit a job. good move? what are you heang? >> i think h times was exquiz it. look at wh she did it. right before a long weekd. ere was aong weekend when we were on vacation. the president is ouof town. the whiteouse isn't makg as much news as they do when they can control the message here in town. eped right facebk, twitter, controlling that message herself and got corage in theay she wanted. as far as capitol hill where i work most of the time, that's going to be busy next week. there's a week when maybe catol 's not being covered as closely as normal. >> le ask you about something else thahasn't gotten a lot of atttion. here is joe biden making the rounds on the sunday talk shows and was asd about th

more now from my one-onne interview with the governor during her last days in offi. agine yourself runng for preside? >> i don't knowhat the future lds. i can't predict what the next fish run is going to look like, much less what going happ ia couple of years,but my focus is on my state, stil and it always will be and myamily and what is bt for them. what is best for theis to not run for re-election an to avoid a lame duck knd of -- a wasteful session in a final yr office and say i' going to step aside. that way we cantill proess our good agenda because the eutenant governorhas been sdehrough all of. this he knows what the agenda is we usher that through. >> some have said that you saw the bright lights from the national campaign and came ba and it w vy hard t readjust to the nitty-grittyork of -- >> the nitty-gritty le the fishlime dirt und t fingernails? >> younow, the state capital, the hard legislative slog? >> , that's not -- am fighter. i rive on challenge that is a challenge. at i don't thrive on and why i'm not wired to all wastes because m a very busy person

the officeof president is e offi of t head of state where asur head of state is the ... >> charlie: the queen. >> the little ol lady i the palace. oever at downing street doesn't have hat charisma bestowed on them. they have to earn it. >> charlie: there also this part of what youe done in your careers toive people a sense of seeg something they ven't seen. you're seeingort ofhe unabridged. you're seeeople behind the scenes. you are piercinthe curtain. >> yes. i me, that is the the trick we're trying toull, it's sht in a very documentary way and i mped and soon. but i load it with authenticity and details we pick uppeaking to the peoplen their environment seeing wt their environment looks like. we somimes make sries up and exaggerate them d then find out tha they e true. and that's the shocking thing. that's what i despair you kn. that's what i fd like ridicuus, you know. >>harlie: it's le you couldn make this up. >> no, exactl >> charlie: that's the exact pression. >> exactly. it sll happens. herehe moment dick cheney arguing tha it would be wro reveal secretsbout something which nev h

neverland ranch inta barbara bu we also saw similar gatherings at the hospital initially, the coroner's offie, chael jackson's boyhd home, as well a the residence that was rented that he was staying at at the time of his dea. so therowds have bee peaceful. the crowds have been respectful. we don't aicipate we'd see other types o crowds here at this venue, although we're certaiy prepared for a eventualy. >> as i' sure you are, sir. los angeles councilwoman and acting mayor right now, jan perry. sistant chief with the lapd, jim mcdonnell. thanks very much and best of luck on tuesday. all of you keep it righthere for special ve coverage of michael ckson's memial servicall day tuesday on msnbc. >>> president obams fourth overseas trip a cmander in chief starts tonightita flighto ssia. amons goals, menning relations wi moscow. relations th he says worsened under the previous administration. the president will al attend the annual g-8 summi in italy and wiltravel to afca to address gna's rliament. families joined the fitamily at the white house to celebrate the fourth of july. prident thaed those m

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president obama has not been shy about giving interviews during his first six months in offi.h cbs, and nine times with nbc. he has given just two interviews to fox news since taking office. a presidential historian tells the politico newspaper that mr. obama has given more interviews than any recent president at this point in his term, and his fourth primetime news conference tonight is the same number that president george w. bush held in his eight years in office, but despite the media's saturation, most of which has been positive, the president is still not happy. he told a group of liberal bloggers during a conference call monday, quote "i know the blogs are the best at debunking myths that can slip through a lot of the traditional media outlets, and that is why you are going to play such an important role in our success in the weeks to come." "special report," by the way, still has a standing interview request with the president. the obama administration is bowing to pressure from a government watchdog group which requested a list of health industry executives who have v

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virgin islan when she was convicted of defrauding the city while working as manager of the d.ctacex offibids will begin online today and then close on wednesday. the minimum bid is listed at $212,000. walters is currently serving a 17-year sentence. >>> we start off with a hot and steamy start. >> it is july, yeah. >> yeah. but our temperature -- our july is still running much coo av e.anager than average. also dry, even with that rain that we had. outside now we've got building clouds, but the nasty showers are down. the temperature outside right now is 87 degrees. big day today. big day. last day that our average high is 89 degrees. tomorrow the average high is8. and in four weeks, the average high is down to 85 degrees. july is the hottest month of the year on average. although it may thought be -- maybe we'll have an august hotter than july. look at the morning low temperature. we made it down to 72. but it has been a cool pattern around the lakes. but now to the pacific northwest. that's where some of the records have been. record warm mornings. record warm to hot afternoons. midpar

does she hold offi anymor no.ut she can sti command a constituency out there among the faithful and campaning among the folks she called the "real americans." i think she could be a pretty divisive figure in american politi. >> do you think ashe on the heels of saying that h signation is about cntry, you thin she can do more fr the republic party ithe lower 48 than she does in aska? >> she can raise money for the party but jdging by the reaction of the more serious politicians within the party, i don't ow that they see her as an set now. e's a little radioacte, so i think ey're going to be careful about howthey handle her. i don't think anydy wants to attach t star to hers. we'll see if that changes downhe roa though. you never know. you heardf a guy med richard nixo terms of political comebacks? >> yeah. but he was a solid politician really he wasn't my favore but he had a lot more credibility and expertise than sar palin. and he didn't quithalf-way through being governor of california. >> dy noted elr clift, tha

i was respectful of the offi, but crital of him. the one thinhere is that i criticized president bush on his signing statemt. congress passed law and said we're going to disregard what that congress said. youon't want president obama to do the same thing. here wt you're looking at now, here's what you' looking at right w. you're saying,don't want the esent to say, let's just forget what the congress d back 16 years agand ignore them. he honors a legal brch of government. and we need to do it as a congress and put a bill onis desk. heas been very clear, rachel, that he willn it. he's beevery clear to his secretary of defense and joint chiefs that wants to make sure we're loo at how we're going to implement a change policy. it's our job now to act with a sense of urgency to maket happen. have e momentum of the american plic, we have even a form chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we have general colin powell, who s comeut and said, who is of the authors of the don't ask, don't tell licy 16 years ago, who h said now, we need tre-eva

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rose: my question in other way is did you-- director of offi of management and buet-- recommend... did you rgo in negotiations wit ngress and everything else forgo immedie stimus iact, a, because congress had oer things they wanted to spend the money on or, b, because the president was dedicat to sustaibility programs like health care, educaon and clate change. >> re: no, i think, look... i guess. it's always ey to conduct this. i think we wound up in about the same size package at we had descrid. the mimay have been slighy differt. but, look i can always npick. we got more ste fislelief than had ever been done before and than anyone would ve suggested was possible >> rose: thehrust of my questionthough, is to see what the learning experience is, not to sort of say tl me the magica.. >> theearning experice, i think, was we got the rovery act done 8 days after taking office. most economists would have sd at was possible. days afteraking office. up? most politicians, too. >> was it perfect? no,as hit in the middle of re let's get done something? and, you kw, this is a lite bit... thi

are we back , hey, we got to keep the couny safe and only we could know in the oval offi, and at's it>> are you telling me i havto come up with a defense here for dick cheney? i think that -- you know, i thintheir gument would obably be something like, thi thing s really seitive and we couldn't tst them. but that's jt not what the law allows theto do. i thinit would be simple enough forongress itself at least to figure out, d vice president -- then vice presidt cheneyell the cia noto tell congress about this? because that is a serious problem. and as you mentioned earlier it goes back to the whole contversy over pelosi. it really does begin to look like, in t years the cia wa't leveling wit congress on everytng. and 's important that congress be informed. >>im griffin, how do you defend thi >> well, clearl the laweeds to be follow. i don't thk there's any question here. i thinpart of theuestion he is, what are the rest of the facts? we don't kno everything in this case. but there is a political component. and that is, the administration's got to be careful not to get the bad guys mixe

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the fedal reserve slammed on the brakes, began to inflict the pain well before president rean took offi. to reagan's credit, he realized it was the right medicine. but the fed had already adnistered the medicine before reagan.... >> rose: but paul vocer is the guy who d it? >> yes. and president reagannderstand it w neceary and he h to sit there and take i fortunateltwo years later, begining in the fallf '82 it began to work and bythe fall of '84 as youemember it was morning in erica. >> rose: now turn to the... bill clinton comes office in 12, comes into offic in january '93. what is that bob rubin and you did in terms of deficit reduction and e legistion in order to producesome say, you know, a rather attractive surplus at thend of eight years and larrysummers and others. >> wl, there were a whole seri of things and erybody knows it's been widely chronicled. t me mention one tha hasn't gotten as mu attenon. president clinn and the congress installed tough budget rules-- two of the- an authentic pay-as-you-g system meaningay-go,ny time you were to crease spending cut taxes yohad to off

that's his daughter liz cheney, who hasn't ruledut rubbing for offi someday. >>> we begin this day with the first day of the confirmatn hearings for sia sotomayor. we he two members of the senate judiciary committee joining us right n starting with nar dick durb of illinois. i was on t program this morng covering this thing live, your hearings today, senato riard wolffe, who is a smart guy, he's got a big bo out about the campaign, you know h well, he says this is really a rrate fight between the president's enemies and our president. let's take a look right noat the judge making her case in her opening statement. >> throughout my 17 yes on the bench, i have witnessed the human consequences of my decisions. those decisions have not been de to serve the interests of anone litigant, but alwa to serve the larger ierests of impartial juste. >> well, that raises the question of whether her empathy for people is,n facta prejudice towardcertain people. has she adessed that issue so far, senator? >> i think s has. think e's addressed it, and i think it just stands to reon that each of us, no ma

said we've got the mayo clinic, we've got the democtic governors, we've got the congressional budet offiellingus we're goi in e wrong direction. we have bils before the congress ich i support and others do that saye can do this witut add to go the debt. about the only thi bipartisaabout what we've done is the opposition to i chris dodd i... has conducted a heic committee sessionnd as very friendly. but bascally reblican ideas and ideasrom others have not been included inhat we're doing. wehould start over. of course we canet this done thisyear. >> can i mention one thing, judy. with my gd friend herewe accepted 161 republican amendmts. it is a bipartisa bil. >> not at e ways and means. >> i'm talking about our bill 160. we dealt with 800 amendmen over 23essions. 15 days, 60 hour athe end of it i identifie each of my colleagues, the conibutions sub stan tive they made to this bil but it is bipartan. those were technil amements that made no real difference in except about tw cases. >>woodruff: let me ask congressman cooper a ryan how y see this aying out over the ne few weeks. what do y th

with sarah palin's stunner of an announcement that she's leaving offi later this month. saturday palin posted a statement on facebook that cited a higher calling to advance the country along conservative principles. to help sort out why palin is stepping down, we welcome from anchorage alaska's lieutenant governor sean parnell, karl rove, and former governor mike huckabee who ran for president last year. lieutenant governor parnell, sarah palin called you into her office to drop the bombshell. in a couple of sentences, because i'm sure a lot of people e ill a little bit confused, why d she say that she is dropping out? >> well good morning. you know, think what i heard from the governor really had to do with the weight on her, the concern she had for the cost of all the ethics investigations and the light that -- the way that weighed on her with respect to her inability to just move forward alaska's agenda on behalf of alaskans in the current context of the environment. so that's what i saw. >> so basically she was saying that all of the personal attacks, all of the ethi

the los angeles county coroner's office visited the doctor's offi yesterday to follow-up on a subpoena klein said he sedated jackson for past medical procedures, but he denies giving him an unnecessary dosage of drugs. they are focusing on the role of prescription drugs that may have played in jackson's death. toxicology reports will be completed by the end of this week. . president obama puts his arm to test at the major league baseball all-star game. >> here's lindsay czarniak with your sports minute. >> hey, there. good morning, everybody. your sports minute begins with the 80th major league baseball all-star game. last night in st. louis, president obama threw out the first pitch. it didn't bounce. he did a great job. tied at three in the seventh inning, colorado's brad hopp drills one to left, but karl crawford was named the mvp. in the eighth, adam jones drove in the game-winni run. the national or american league beats the national league. >>the wizards tipped off play in las vegas against the cavaliers last night and nick young pumped in 36 points for the wizards. washington wi

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want me to ma a potive difference and fight f all our children's future from outside the goverr's offi hell yeahealed it. some day i'll talk out the details of that. >> all right. that is a part of governor sarah palin's -- gernor not for longby the way, less than two weeks and she out of there. shocking announcent about her plans to resign. we've been getti some e-mails, st w. >> bombarded with e-mails. >> just a tad. >> f oe not abo donny deutsch. >> i wear them with pride. >> we know. but some people upset wi somethg you said. >> yes. chris, explain. >> you're getting a lot -- a lot -- and they're angry. one from bob. this iin peachtree city georgia. soundsike a nice enoughplace. mika, what were you thinking in making the comment aoutarah palin connecting with real americans? who are the real americans? >> yeah, mika. >> well, i think herviews, actually, doand as much as people in the mainstream media may notagree with heriews on some key issues, i think a lot of americans do. and i remember traveling the untry as a cbs correondent and mting these americans, many of them aee with he

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