he's tougher than paterson. >> andrew cuomo is ahead of governor paterson. who knows. >> you're a vote behind. you're beating paterson. how are you doing with cuomo. >> a little behind. but you can beat him. you endorsed his dad. >> maybe his dad will endorse me if i run. >> let me ask you about health care tonight. you're a republican. is this a partisan issue, opposition to the president's health care plan? like demint says, beat him and make it his waterloo like he's napoleon or somebody. >> i think there's an issue of principle for me. i think the president is making a fundamental mistake and going to ruin our health care system by creating this whatever you want to call it, massive government insurance program. the government already dominates too much of the health care market and will totally obliterate the health care market like taking over the automotive industry, taking over the financial industry and the banks, now health care and then eventually energy. we'll have nothing left. >> what does your party do. let me put it on your side. what's your

are we talking about governor paterson? that all of these create a new level of problems involving either controversy or political intrigue. >> i don't understand that argument because president clinton didn't pick speaker gingrich. that's the source of the intrigue. if it's presidentially appointed, federal officers, we can go back and forth, it would be by the president joyce. so you would eliminate or at least substantially reduce the intrigue. >> by the intrigue would be in the making of that appointment. >> if the president pick somebody who is clearly out of line for a political flashpoint, you have confirmation by the senate. and i do not think you are going to find a president, either one who is responsible and who is going to look for people who are clearly qualified, but you're not going to have a senate saying let's take this 85 year-old who is clearly losing it. if i were president, for example, i would put a jamie gorelick, or people who have a lot of breadth of experience, are active, vigorous, intelligent and

governor david paterson held a session yesterday to get the evenly split parties to compromise on this. it only last ford three minutes. lawmakers have not act odd critical bills for a month now, instead they fight about things who should lead the pledge of allegiance. >>> fireworks scared a dog badly he broke out of a cage. his handler put him in a kennel on july 4th, but the next day j.j. was gone and the latch was broken. >> this is fairly sturdy, heavy-duty bracket that he was somehow able to bend open, you know, when it was already around another collapse. >> j.j. also had to scale two chain link fences to get out. his handler found him safe yesterday. >>> all right. bob, maybe wanted to see the fireworks. that's what it was. >> i'm thinking not knowing how my dog reacted. >> not a patriot is what you're saying? >> not a fan of the loud noises. we'll show you the monday morning early right now. stalled-out front, and below it humid conditions. you can see that evident with all the clouds, all the rain and white. the rain is coming out of alabama through georgia and now stretching

workers and pullman porters, postal unionist and prominent iww supporters and speaker of the 1913 patersonsilk strike. he was a pioneer black activist in the free thought and birth control movements. he was a leader in urging the development of race conscious independent political voice for black people and urging support of black candidates responsive to the black community. in urging support for new york city's first elected black official and its importing a black candidate to run for president of the united states in 1920. harrison is a key figure in the 20th century black activism. he profoundly influenced a generation of new negro militants and common people including the class conscious philip randolph and race conscience marcus garvey. he was the class conscience of the race radicals and most race conscience of the class radicals of his day. he is i argue in the biography of the key idealogical linking the two great strengths of the liberation movement. the labor and civil rights to the end of randolph and martin luther king jr. and race in nationalist trend of garvey and malcolm x

this was approved in 2007 and funding for this has been periodic and paterson just approved more funding for it. >> despite the fact this is obviously selling human tissue. >> well, the law allows it and this is what the critics are saying. it's really a transaction, a cash transaction for human tissue. that's exactly what critics say. but the law allows it. >> in point of fact, it is human tissue and it is being paid for. and they're not willing to acknowledge that straight forwardly, or -- >> well, for sperm and for eggs, you can compensate. again, what people -- what these people are saying, the law is allowing this and we're actually paying for their time and we're paying for their efforts, we're not actually paying for their eggs. but the critics are saying, this is a cash transaction. you're paying for those eggs. >> yeah. semantics and observeification, no stranger to politics, but as senator chuck schumer said of illegal immigration, straight forward language would be appreciated here. thanks a lot. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi is saying no to any proposal of a former resolutio

in the book, one of the chapters is by eva paterson, who the dean mentioned, and her colleague, susan serrano from the equal justice society in san francisco, and they suggest it's time to overrule a case called washington vs. davis. it says if you're going to prove violation of the equal protection clause you have to prove there was an intents on the part of in the the government to discriminate. it's not enough to prove that minority groups are treat adversely, that government rules or regulations or laws treat people unfairly as a result of their race or gender. you have to prove that there's an intent to discriminate, and what they say, so eloquently in this chapter in the book, is that intentional discrimination is not what it's about at this point in america in terms of race relations. we are dealing with institutional racism. we're dealing with up conscious discrimination. we're dealing with things like charles lawrence described about unconscious racism. it's time to develop an understanding how race works in our see site and develop legal tools for doing that and the supreme

that right there, that would be about, i'm going to go wimay with wayne and wicough and south of paterson. princeton, new jersey, a lot of hail coming down, one-inch hail hitting the ground in some spots. there's ridgewood, it's heading northeast not right now getting to new york city. but there will be more cells today. this is actually quite a distinguished day across parts of the northeast. this is what it looks like, kind of. what you can see, which would be right there the northern edge of central park, this is the south edge of central park, so only a couple miles. you can barely see all the way across "c" park there in parts of new york city there today. the thunderstorms will be with us all day long, some of them could contain hail, some could even rotate, which means there may be small tornadoes around a very populated area. we're not talking west texas. where only three people can see them and they're all storm spotters. you get hail and big storms across 15 million people, you're going to see some damage. kyra? >> okay, we'll keep tracking it with you. thanks chad. >> you're we

. >> you're talking about pa paterson -- it might be cuomo. >> who can tell? sitting governors also have the opportunity to revive and change their fortune, so we'll have to see. >> do you miss the energy that comes from being in public office. >> i love being in public office. i have to admit that, i do. there's a certain ability to fix things and have a big impact on people's lives when you can really help them. >> let things get so messed up that you have to come? you certainly have your work cut out for you. >> that's how i got elected mayor of new york city. the first one in 25 years. i was the first one to remain a republican in 50. i think they were just desperate, they needed somebody. >> regardless of whether people agree with your positions or not. members of the city will always remember this. >> i enjoyed it tremendously r. a lot of fun. >> we hope you come back. >> before you run. >> make you are shoe join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" is coming up next. >>> all right. we have some breaking news. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm mark h

and eric paterson's going to come up and grab the tie. >> five up.on by two runs or less. the last two about eight runs combined. also overall against oak land a a. >> boston, two and a half back of the yankees to start the night. mired in a five-game skid. dustin pedroia in the sixth. watch nick mark acheis with his cano owe markakis with his cannon in right field. throwing out ellsbury at the plate. his 11th assist on the season. next best in baseball. >> top nine, bases loaded. papelbon gets scott and melvin mora to end it. tieing run was on second. winning rub on first. and -- winning run on first and papelbon shuts down the o's. red sox win it by a final of 3-1. and stay two and a half back of the yankees. >> big news earlier in the day. cardinals rolling the dice. acquiring matt halladay for a trio of minor leaguers. he's a career .315 hitter. won the batting title with colorado in 2007. also the mvp of the nlcs. now, holliday struggled in the beginning of the season. but picked it up, raising his average to .286. joining wallace in the deal, o

new york governor david paterson and charles rangel speak. >>> a plea bargain hearing for aaron coatel begin. >>> the famous running of the bulls is under way in spain right now. america has something like that going on. this is by far the worse that can happen. >>> florida deputies have arrested two men accused of killing a florida couple, a third man is charged with evidence tampering and authorities say more arresting could be on the way. they were killed in their home on thursday. the couple had 16 children, many of them were adopted children with special needs. >>> president obama wants to better coordinate federal efforts to help u.s. cities. today he's holding a one-day white house summit to start writing a national urban policy. later the head of a new office of urban affairs will travel the country to reach out to city leads. >> that's not part of the uniform. you need to tha that off. this outfit is too matchy matchy as it is. i was trying to break it up with some sirnl horizontal lines. >> that's sasha barron cohen as "bruno" and his movie is number one at the box office. k

are we talking about governor paterson?hat all of these create a new level of problems involving either controversy or political intrigue. >> i don't understand that argument because president clinton didn't pick speaker gingrich. that's the source of the intrue. if it's presidentially appointed, federal officers, we can go back and forth, it would be by the president joyce. so you would eliminate or at least substantially reduce the intrigue. >> by the intrigue would be in the making of that appointment. >> if the president pick somebody who is clearly out of line for a political flashpoint, you have confirmation by the senate. and i do not think you are going to find a president, either one who is responsible and who is going to look for people who are clearly qualified, but you're not going to have a senate saying let's take this 85 year-old who is clearly losing it. if i were president, for example, i would put a jamie gorelick, or people who have a lot of breadth of experience, are active, vigorous, intelligent and cle

blended fuels at wright paterson air force base. they know back in the 1940's when the united states bombed the romanian oil fields and cut off the german supply of oil, the germans quickly transitioned to synthetic fuel. we are researching that in ohio and the united states military is doing the same. we have more coal reserves in the united states than oil reserves in saudi arabia. this should be a major national project. this is a matter of our national security. let me reference our friend, mitt romney. a good american. suggested that there are multiple reasons for us to say we want to be less depend interon foreign energy and to develop our own sources. that's the real key, of course. additional sources of energy here as well as more efficient use of energy that will allow the world to have less oil being drawn down from the various sources it comes without dropping prices too high of a level. it will keep people, some of whom are unsavory characters, from having an influence on our foreign policy. let me add mr. huckabee. mr.