amazingly, news reports indicate that pell grants -- pell grants may be put on the chopping block in speaker boehner's latest effort to appease the most extreme members of his party. mr. president, this is getting ridiculous. rhode island's great senator, claiborne pell, first proposed the grants that now bear his name. he envisioned a grant that would enable low-income students to attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities so that they, too, could share in the american dream. why do these far right extremists in the house want to snuff that out? in 1976, the first year that pell grants were fully funded, a full pell grant paid 72% of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. today a full pell grant covers just 34% of those costs. even that they're willing to attack. this vital assistance from pell grants can often mean the difference between being able to attend college or not, with many families in rhode island and across america still struggling in this struggling economy, we should be looking for ways to strengthen pell grants, not weaken them. a

he has a federal pell grant for $5500. he gets $2,000 from the supplemental educational opportunity program, and syracuse university gives him a tuition grant of $34,000. he qualifies for student aid totalling more than $54,000 for tuition, room and board at syracuse. wow. if his federal aid gets slashed, he'll remember which politicians played a role when this youngster goes to the polls. >> it is not just about, you know, trying to get a bid for re-election, making yourself look good as a political figure. it is about who -- what person this is going to affect. who will be affected by this. and you can look at me. you can look at a 50-year-old working. it has a big impact on everyone. and that's what they should take into consideration, who will be impacted by this and how will they impact future generations. >> reporter: students getting pell grants could be among the first to feel any impact. pell programs have been on the chopping block since republicans took over the house. a recent round of cuts slashed pell grants

give up pell grants and don't send your kids to college. if you're making over $1 million, you get your tax cut. that's not a deal we could support. >> my question, couldn't the gop declare victory and go home if there were no revenue increases beyond allowing the bush tax cuts to expire? apparently giving a green light by grover norquist?

don't have to be repaid, but pell grants aren't enough to pay for for-profit schools. to make up the difference, students take out loans at four-year for-profit schools, 96% of students are borrowing money. and when students leave school, many for-profit college students find their training didn't prepare them for a job and the employers don't recognize their degrees. buried in debt, without good career and job prospects, these students simply can't keep paying the loans. that's why the default rate, 44%, is so high. within three years, 25% of students who leave a for-profit college will default on their student loans. let me tell you the story of two of them. christine lives in southern illinois. she received a degree in medical billing and coding from sanford brown college. she took out student loans to pay for college and she now owes a total of $24,000 for her two-year associate's degree. she now refers to that degree, and i quote, as completely worthless. christine said that when she went interviewing for jobs, one company told her her degree was a strike against

the two fixes have to do with a sharper cut in pell grant money, pell grants, what you get -- a lot of college students use that to help pay for college. government loans. and the second is potentially turning this issue of the balanced budget amendment and in their bill saying it has to actually be sent to the states. actually pass before the house and senate before they'll consider one more debt ceiling vote. the bill was already dead on arrival, although you could argue how dead it was really going to be. if you put the balanced budget amendment language in there that i truly just described, it true sli a poisoned pill, meaning the legislation has no chance and it will get sent back. so i do think you brought up the issue of the senate vowing that it was going to kill it the minute it was sent over. i actually think that helped whip votes against us with conservatives who said why am i going to walk the plank for something that's going to get essentially tabled or shoved aside or voted down by the senate. minutes after i vote for something i'm not contractible with voting for anyway

-- is it pell grants, community block grants? >> i would be happy to yield to the chair. >> would there be at some time where you allow me to recognize myself? >> you can put it in the comments. >> i will seize the opportunity. >> i will encourage the chair to also answer mr. mcgovern's question as to what is being cut. there are many cuts that my colleagues from massachusetts and i agree on, including reducing these unnecessary wars and bringing some of our troops home. again, it does not make explicit mention, but we are in a situation where we have to pass a bill to know what is in it. are we cutting social security? are we cutting food stamps? are we increasing pell grants, as the chair said? there is great uncertainty in this body dot with regard to the last-minute trillion dollar bill that does not have a single hearing or a single mark up. to be brought forth to the house under a proposed closed rule. the slaughter amendment, which i support, and i call on my colleagues to support it. a trillion dollar bill that will cut s

. >> my hope and what it will be urge can speaker boehner and n proposal pell as well as leader reid and mitch mcconnell that they tomorrow are prepared to start talking turkey and actually getting down to craft ago plan to move us forward. >> the bipartisan plan calls for reforms to entitlement programs like social security and trim the national deficit by $4 trillion. >> michael vick visited capitol hill today to bring his anti-dogfighting message to congress. he wants to keep children from not making his same mistake. >> this has two parts, making a crime to bray child to a fight and making it a crime to be a spectator at the event. i hope that representatives and senators will read this message and join us in support for legislation. >> the football star has been speaking out and working with humane societies. he nike announced that he was re-signing him to a endorsement deal. >>> let's take a look outside and show you some of the good news of the fog retreating back to the coast. flight arrival delays are over at sfo. we do have warmer weather not everywhere today but kind of to

half of that number could not be there without pell grants. and now we're saying it's okay to cut the pell grants in half? no, it's not okay. are we going to tell our seniors we're going to cut social security in half? are we going to tell those people that need unemployment insurance they're going to get 50%? it's not sustainable. i heard my colleagues talk about predict ability. the cut, cap, and balance is not going to be sustained. it's a radical approach. we can do better. quite frankly, david brooks, the conservative columnist, said it best. i quote what he said about where republicans particularly in the house are trying to lead this nation. david brooks wrote, and i quote the republican party may no longer be a normal party. over the past few years it has been infected by a faction that is more a psychological protest than a practical governing alternative. the members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms. if you ask them to raise taxes by an inch in order to cut government by a foot, th

. >> my hope and what it will be urge can speaker boehner and n proposal pell as well as leader reid and mitch mcconnell that they tomorrow are prepared to start talking turkey and actually getting down to craft ago plan to move us forward. >> the bipartisan plan calls for reforms to entitlement programs like social security and trim the national deficit by $4 trillion. >> michael vick visited capitol hill today to bring his anti-dogfighting message to congress. he wants to keep children from not making his same mistake. >> this has two parts, making a crime to bray child to a fight and making it a crime to be a spectator at the event. i hope that representatives and senators will read this message and join us in support for legislation. >> the football star has been speaking out and working with humane societies. he nike announced that he was re-signing him to a endorsement deal. >>> let's take a look outside and show you some of the good news of the fog retreating back to the coast. flight arrival delays are over at sfo. we do have warmer weather not everywhere today but kind of to

. >>> plus, in new york for major league soccer's all-star game, beckham and pell take time to break a world record. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today" on this tuesday morning. the weather pattern is tranquil and quiet on the west coast. not much in the way of rain. a little drizzle early in washington state, maybe around seattle. you sun should come out later in the day. portland, 72 today. l.a. looks nice, towards the coast, you'll be in the 70s. inland, in the 80s. and the warm, beautiful weather continues into wednesday. no problems along the interior. just along the coast, a little bit cool. if you're watching us in l.a., california, indulge in a sweet afternoon. learning all about the history and science behind a favorite treat at chocolate, the exhibition at the event of the day. dark chocolate for me. and you make it sound so appetizing, bill, thank you. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. add the late amy winehouse to those whose phones were hacked. the sunday mail claims tabloids also accessed winehouse's

. >> golf now, and van pell had a 165 and has a one shot lead after three rounds at the canadian openjohn daly is tied for fifth and three shots back. >>> mark calcavecchia, on the top of the leader board at the senior british open but blew the lead open after a bogey on 13, luckily he would finish the round with a great tee shot on 18. and that set up an easy birdie putt. to get him back to seven under and tied for the lead with russ korcoran. >>> day 20 of the tour de france. a time trial, tony martin here. and moved ahead of the shlek brothers to take the yellow jersey and a one minute and 34 second lead. meaning the champagne may be flowing for the 34-year-old evans as he closes in on the first-ever tour de france win. >>> a group of nba stars which included kobe bryant, taking their talents to the philippines. kevin durant sets up his teammate james harden for the big jam. they beat the tva all-stars 31-105. >>> finally -- 131-105. >>> finally no sprint scup this weekend but kasey kahne did not spend the week laying on the beach, and his car somersaulted over the railing in a wor

and his website's home page lists his five core principle pells -- principles. one is our liberty is in our god, our sovereighty is in our souls, not the soul, and security is from the strength and prosperity is from the private sector. truths are self-evident, not relative. he and his family are planning to move to the white house. >>> american troops are celebrating the 4th in part of the world you might not have realized. these men and women are in cursic stan. they are stationed at a transit center. it's a military installation mostly run by the air force as a stop-over point for troops going to and from afghanistan. >> there is no defined date as to when the transit center will close. or if it ever closes. our opportunities here are to support the international efforts in afghanistan. and while president obama said some will draw down, there will still be forces in afghanistan. so for the foreseeable future, we are here with our partners supporting efforts in afghanistan. >> there is 1200 american troops at the transit center. >>> with summer in full swing,

there will be -- education will take big hits with the pell grants. to achieve the so-called cuts they are talking about would mean that a lot of people could be severely hurt. >> but we cannot sustain this level of debt forever. >> we cannot, but here is what is wrong -- we have to get control of the deficit, but we do not want to do anything on the revenue side. all of the pain is coming from the cuts. you are still leaving those tax cuts to the wealthy untouched, still living subsidies in for the oil companies untouched. everything to the poor folks and middle-class folks, they bear the brunt of it. >> met monday this week -- "my view is we should have a president who agrees to cut, cap, and balance the budget" -- mitt romney. >> he does not want to get too far out on a limb in the spirit in the grand bargain, there were revenue increases, closing loopholes that nobody wants to defend, except for grover norquist, who is having an incredible amount of power in this debate. there's a counter intuitive thing here. you have to spend some to get out of

in this budget that they just put forward, are tremendous cuts to the pell grants that allow kids to go to school. research, again, bobby you talked about the research cuts and the infrastructure we talked about several times. this is all part of our agenda. this is how we're going to build america. how the american dream can become a reality once again by making the critical investments on the public side, bringing the private side along. i know that texas likes to say everything is great in texas but i talked to our colleague, sheila jackson lee, many times we talk to you on the floor, an it's not all perfect. could you share with us the view from texas? ms. jackson lee: the gentleman from california is very kind for leading this effort, i'm delighted to be here, we really got a regional, national perspective here. the gentleman from colorado, from connecticut, the gentlelady from ohio, and of course the gentleman from new york and the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and texas. texas is a big state. and i heard a colleague on this side of the aisle say that texas has got all ki

how dare we cut pell grants. how dare we take the poor students in our nation and say to them that they are going to be cut more than that. we give aig and other people low interest loans but our students still pay six and 7% on loans? but do you know what? it is okay. we don't say anything so my brother, you take that energy. i love your energy. take it to the streets. >> that we have been taking it to the streets and there have been protests. we live in a nation that seems to be manipulated by a mass media. >> i knew it was going to come back to the media. [laughter] thank you so much. unfortunately we are running out of time but once you lay blame on the mass media than we then we are all sacked. thank you. >> people are activated and people are protesting and that is why myself i have joined the freedom party. the freedom party has been involved in massive protest to change the way education is being destroyed. >> thank you so much. thank you very much. i appreciate your efforts. we are told that we are at th

how are we preparing young women and young women in general.s, h it's protecting the pell grant programs, help lower income and middle income children go to andege. >> it's making hard decisions,is men, women, children how are we going to provide for thethe f immediate, going forward. the fact that they can't come to any kind of conclusions about what things look like is very -- it's disturbing. most americans are sort of, i don't understand.re tha there's a deal that can be made but no one's willing to make it. and there are mostly men in thai room and i have no doubt since since -- if there were more women there have been a deal t made. >> government massive debt limits women's choices. so, there does need to be structural changes that will free up women so that they can be making their own choices what they want to do with their lives rather than instituting more government programs that end up estricting women.ti womo >> so many women are beneficiaries of theseci entitlement programs.enti how will that impact limits? >> women rely on medicare more so than men. they rely on medicaid m

guest: is not fair to tax someone for corporate jets but it is okay to cut pell grants?is so unbalanced that it is not funny. if you have enough money to purchase a corporate jet, you will by the corporate jet regardless of much of what is happening around you. when you are looking at these investments we're starting to cut, down the road it makes us look competitive as a country. everyone is ok with all these caps and cutting discretionary spending but if you go to the corporate jets and oil companies or the top 1% cycle all of a sudden, it is class warfare. host: we're talking with representative tim ryan, a member of the house budget committee. we're talking about the debt debate and we would like you to get involved if you have not called in the last 30 days. you can also send us massey via email and twitter. we want to show part of the president's radio address that will be played later this morning. he says the parties are not that far apart and must -- compromise by tuesday. >> the parties are not that far apart we are in agreement about how much spending money to

to pull his debt limit plan off the floor of the main reasons because the tea party went nuts over pell grants as in no way no how will they support a bill that helps students go to college we can no longer believes the tea party is controlled by republicans tea parties on its own now running roughshod through congress as we've witnessed in this debt limit debate and even john boehner knows this himself by now and what republicans and the rest of us need to ask ourselves today is how did this happen how did a constitutional democracy allow a group of destructive ideologues to take power in congress and drag our country and economic ruin what happened well citizens united happened as i discussed in chapter eleven of my book on equal protection the supreme court's citizens united decision in january of two thousand and ten fundamentally changed american politics it laid the groundwork for the tea party crazies to come to power the roberts court reversed a century of electoral law and kept corporations from meddling in our politics and kept a mocker city in the hands of the people and inst

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this is a good referendum, and i think it's at least good that they're having the, they're giving the pell the right to choose. the people are getting the right to choose what their business model is, and it's not being imposed from sacramento. so in that sense i like the fact that they're doing this referendum, but you won't see us involved. >> host: and finally, give us a snapshot of your company and why you changed the name from overstock.com to o.be co. -- o.co. >> guest: 200,000 products plus books, movies, music, games, and we have the lowest price on the internet. and they really are the lowest prices. and we with liquidate inventory for people, so they're great -- we don't claim to have everything everybody else has, but what we have is 80-85% of the time it's cheaper. and we changed the name from overstock to o.co both because we're going global and it's going to be a lot easier to teach a billion people in china what o.co is, and 20-40% of our business has shifted over, so we just decided to go with it and make that the brand. it's be the esso to exxon transition in the '70s. >>

including pay for veterans for members of the armed services, civil servants, as well as funding for pellrants, special education programs, the federal courts, law enforcement, the fbi. what do they do, close it down? national nuclear programs. housing assistance. it goes on and on. and this is to say nothing of the impact on global financial markets. >> i think it would be a calamitous outcome, create a very severe financial shock that would affect not only the u.s. economy but the global economy. we would destroy the trust and confidence that global investors have in u.s. treasury securities as being the safest and most liquid assets in the world. >> joining me now, "the washington post" columnist and contributor, ezra klein. thank you for joining me tonight, ezra. >> good evening. >> this report gives lie to this crazy republican notion that has been going around, michele bachmann and the others saying they would be fine, they just wouldn't pay the stuff we don't need, they could pay the social security, the military, be able to pay for the interest on the debt, the bonds, all that stu

pell grants, cut in half. they say over and over againn dn washington doesn't have a tax problem.we have a spendingwe problem. t let's take a look at that.se if you look at non-defense, discretionary over the years, what you in inflation, it hasn't grown at all. spending while the military spending has gone up 74%., so clearly, we have a roadmap so we can get to where we have to get.ut let's not keep cutting the things we have already cut. let's cut the ways. let's cut the fraud. let's cut the abuse and let'sn cut the expenditures. i will ask u for an additional five minutes and then i willobjo yield to my friend. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you area much. so defense spending, they may look at it and they are not happy about it even though it ls has gone up 74% over the last 1e years. again, we should look at warren buffett.oint warren buffett made the point that he paid only 17.7% tax. he paid only a 17.7% tax on his its $46 million in earnings while his receptionist paid 30% on her wages. imagine. in 2008 the 400 richest income i tax filers paid an effective rate

it was one of the great giants in the united states senate, senator pell, that led to the creation of the national endowment of the arts in 1965, the program we are defending today. senator pell opened hearings on preliminary legislation by stating, and i quote, i believe this cause and its implementation as a worldwide application for as our cultural lives are enhanced and strengthened so does it project itself into the world beyond our shores. let us provide energy, a true renaissance, and the unstunted growth of our cultural vitality. senator pell said clearly that this disinvestment that we are discussing today for the national endowment of the arts, nearly 50 years later is a stark and appalling contrast to the renaissance and reawakening to the national endowment of the arts. they have been the farther for spending cuts in our schools and federal level. it is in our economic peril that we deprive our youth and communities to their connection to the arts. i have seen on so many occasions -- if i could see -- have one more minute to conclude. the chair: is there objection? objecti

. >> it's critical with pelvic fracture autos the pell yig yis has bone we can place hardware into itis is between 4 mm and 10 mm in diameter. >> in other words leaving a razor thin margin of error. might not look like it, result is a reconstruction using far less hardware than traditional method autos screws go inside of the corridors instead of on top of the bone. they're inside of the bone. >> jenna began rehab after the surgery. now she's hoping tok back to work as a nurse in a matter of week autos getting back to moms and babies, just everything. everything i'm looking forward to. >> as for the bicycle? >> um... maybe. >> and doctors say the system delivers less radiation. that is because once initial 3 d image is created surgeon dmotz have to continue capturing images of the area during the procedure. >> and from health to entertainment. look for harry potter part ii to knock "transformers" out this weekend. advanced sales are huge for this final film in the series. midnight screenings friday are sold out. abc 7 has a look on the aisle. >> the final showdown, harry potter, versu

medicare are so screwed you did get medicare and social security their kids would still get you know pell grants and student financial assistance other programs are essential for a you know for a civil society we continue and so i think it would be a pretty fair way to resolve this issue but senator obama ari caved once on the bush tax cuts and now he himself has adopted this stupid republican idea of the so security tax holiday. very little chance that he would agree to his part of doing nothing yeah that's that's unfortunate well we'll keep an eye on it congressman peter de fazio thanks for the great work you're doing the house of representatives and thanks for keeping us informed and thank you tom appreciate the opportunity great to have you with us for more on the political side of this i'm joined by eric burns former president of media matters for america and currently a partner and strategic communications consultant at bullfight strategies eric welcome and how are you great to see hear. your take on the politics of this well i mean i think it's all politics you know if the republic

guest: is not fair to tax someone for corporate jets but it is okay to cut pell grants? that is so unbalanced that it is not funny. if you have enough money to purchase a corporate jet, you will by the corporate jet regardless of much of what is happening around you. when you are looking at these investments we're starting to cut, down the road it makes us look competitive as a country. everyone is ok with all these caps and cutting discretionary spending but if you go to the corporate jets and oil companies or the top 1% cycle all of a sudden, it is class warfare. host: we're talking with representative tim ryan, a member of the house budget committee. we're talking about the debt debate and we would like you to get involved if you have not called in the last 30 days. you can also send us massey via email and twitter. we want to show part of the president's radio address that will be played later this morning. he says the parties are not that far apart and must -- compromise by tuesday. >> the parties are not that far apart we are in agreement about how much spending mo

. >> and put the pell grant program many rely on in jeopardy. >> now, i can pay for classes but if something changed i won't have that expendable income. >> amid talk of what would happen if congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling another theme pops up. it seems people congress is bluffing. >> i think this is political theater. and i think behind the scenes they're going to strike a compromise. i think everybody loses if we don't agree to debt keeling. >> experts suggest a compromise is farther away than ever, making some people angry. >> it's a little bit petty. i think there are more worried about being right and getting their way than about the american people. >> and money problems in washington could are v.a big impact on california, especially on unemployment. edd is notifying more than one million californians if the crisis is not resolved their check koz stop coming. >> we don't have a reserve in our insurance trust fund. it's about $8.5 billion in the hole right now. we don't have that kind of backing to be able to pay basements right now. >> and also, schools are worried they won't

one of the rumors is they are changing it because some of the conservatives want to cut back on pell grants, money that helps kids go to college. it's got overwhelming support of help to the american people. it shouldn't be 100 or 80 hard right people who don't represent america or the republican party, determining what is done here. thus far, speaker boehner allowed that to happen. >> it's fascinating to listen to the democrats at the moment, with your sweet, innocent smiles, it's the republican's fault, nothing to do with us. the reality is you have continued to preside over a tanking economy. the point to keep blaming president bush and the republicans is getting to the point where you can't do it anymore, isn't it? >> well, you can talk about the economy. we want to get back and work on jobs, legislation and many other things they block. look, they believe in cutting. we believe that there ought to be revenues on the highest income people to balance the budget. we have moved a great deal. we are willing to make significant cuts. have they moved one nickel? one nickel off revenues

replacement that still relatively new in human autos so we thought why don't we try knit dogs, works pelln people. dogs have the same disease humans have. >> and they designed this disc system for dogs after removing the damaged disc, there is a slot in the vertebrae. that device is then used to place the artificial disc while allowing normal movement. >> this is in place he says it avoids some of the side affects of final disc fusion. and there is a cost that runs about $500. discs have been implanted in fewer than a dozen animals he says results are encouraging. >> first two patients there is a poll up after three years with mri after two years. mri shows that this is well in place. >> there is his age to be 13 or 14. we adopted him around nine. he had surgery around 10. like we had a new dog. >> good boy. goodbye. >> and this trial is now expanding and he hopes to have additional data on disc replacement incoming month autos interesting. he looked like he was doing well. >> back now this thundershower update the forecast. >> and we'll stwart a time lapse view from our high definition m

. >> pell weel be able to park faster there will be less double parking and less looking around for whereark. >> the key to the program is these little sensors in the pavement under each space. the sensor talks to that meter keeping track of when the space is in use and when it's empty. then each month, the city will collect the data and use a formula to decide if the price of park goings up or down. the hourly rate with raise by a quarter each month or drop by up to 50 cents m this first round, most meters in marina will go up, but in fisherman's wharf they'll get cheaper in the morning, more expensive in the afternoon. prices near at and t park will drop. in the mission district staying the same during the week dworks up on the weekend. >> unfair. >> store owner cindy spade worries it will give cherz one more reason to shop somewhere eels hard enough to find parking. then, raising prices on top? i don't know. it's just out of control. >> and driver says the price difference doesn't matter since meters take plastic. >> i park with where i can park. you don't think bit if you don't have c

>> that is an objective argument, but these extreme comam pells come to -- examples come to the surface and people say that's horrible, that's horrible and people are being rep pro maneded constantly. actors and musicians cannot express themselves without getting a slew of hate mail. >> they deserve it, joe. >> wouldn't it be great if they couldn't express themselves, period? >> it is the price you pay though. their bank accounts are so much bigger than ours. >> it is the worst argument. i am so tired of the argument that just because you exist in the public eye, that you are not allowed to have an opinion about something. >> yeah, but you also might pay the price. >> the problem is the people think they can say what they want and not pay a price. that's not what free speech means. >> well that's not saying what you want to say. it is hearing what you don't want to hear. >> why do people have to cite you larry flint? >> that's the only person they read. and i use read loosely. >> every time it is larry flints. >> how much money have they made versus how much money it has lost to people

, and encourage innovation and investment and innovation and new technology and green jobs and get pellmaintained so we have educational opportunity. we will be able to do some of that and i hope what the republicans have done by putting off this debt ceiling, and they did this for president bush seven times putting it off, but the marks have not been as bad as when they did not vote for tarp. >>neil: you are blaming the republicans on this? you are 800 days plus late on submitting a budget at all? there is enough blame to go around. >>guest: not the budget, the budget is different from the debt ceiling. >>neil: you rejected raising the debt ceiling in 2006, then it was not politics but now it is. i am just saying if you are going to rip republicans for playing licks -- politics then what were you doing then? >>guest: i wasn't here in 2006. >>neil: what do you think of what they were doing then including senator senator obama voted against raising it. >>guest: the debt ceiling was raised. >>neil: and the same things were said in reverse. >>guest: but the republicans voted for it and the

inmates at pell can state by prison started the protest last friday. they are demanding better food, clothing and permission to make one phone call a month. inmates at other prisons are refusing meals. the department of correction says it will review the prisoners complaints. >>> the oakland zoo's plans to expand could pump millions of dollars into the local economy. a new impact report says the project could generate $100 million for the city and county over the next couple of years. the zoo received final approval to move ahead with their upgrades last month. the plans include a new veterinarian hospital and 20 acres of new exhibits. >>> take a moment. you have to see this. a monkey in indonesia stole a photographers camera and snapped very memorable photos of himself. what a nice smile he has. this is one of the pictures showing the monkey smiling. the photographer says by the time he got his camera back, the monkey has taken hundreds of photos. that is pretty good framing. >> it is. you are a photographer. >> yeah. good lighting. nice positioning t

. >> the pelling bee is also on espn. >> excellent point. >> at lost when you're spelling stuff, you have some redeeming quality. >> that's true. there is something about you that is good. >> you many taking in 19,000 calories in five minutes saint quality. >> are you telling me gluttony isn't a redeemable quality? >> i believe that is a sin somewhere. >> how many can cakes eat? i did 15 in just under 15 minutes to win a bet. >> how did you feel the next day? >> i would never do that again. i felt like a zombie for three straight days. >> i note i the pepto-bismol sign there. they sponsored the whole thing. >> put me on for maybe two or three max and i think i'm good. >> yeah. >> see you, wisdom. >> tap out at one hot dog. >> all right. let's keep talking about baseball or at least what is happening on the baseball field at a baseball stadium. mrs.obama will be at today's nats game. she will join the team for a salute to military families. children of the military families will walk with the first lady to home flight 800 during a pre-game ceremony. one of the children will throw out

. >> pety fours as well as chocolate and oysters, carriage rides through the city's most romantic pell as well as a well dressed picnic. that's not something we do with the other packages. the people who are getting married right now are going to want simpler quicker weddings rather than those taking a year or two to plan. >> many of our rings are stainless steel. >> reporter: at chelsea gift shop arcadia, jay gurewitsch is planning for permanent business. >> we usually keep 20 to 30 rings. by the time summer's over we'll have 100,000 rings in stock and many more of them will be specific lick geared toward weddings. >> i think they'll be surprised at how much more business they're going to have. a couple of o other people we spoke to about cakes when we thought of city cakes, when they saw us come in, you could see the dollar signs come in. >> it's going to be beautiful. you're going to be really happy with it. >> reporter: history is being made and new york businesses are hoping for an invitation. maggie lake, cnn, new york. >>> let's have a quick look at the stock markets again here

don't tram pell over everything, please. easy. secure the area. listen up. body. >> we are all looking for a language to explicate, the remorseless, horrifying, arrogant and narcissistic rage perpetrated upon her. >> reporter: after murder the killer taunted police with letters, but the case was never solved. this box of evidence still sits with l.a.'s other cold case files. >> the suspect drove up here probably about 6:30 in the morning. >> reporter: former lapd detective steve ho d,l showed us the area where elizabeth's body was found. he worked hundreds of homicide cases during his 30-year career. he's convinced that he knows who the dahlia killer is. he believes it was his own father, dr. george hodel. >> he hated mankind. and this was his way of getting even. >> reporter: hodel says when his dad died in 1999, this mysterious photograph he believes is elizabeth short turned up in his father's personal effects. hodel says that sparked an interest in the black dahlia case. and then, he saw one of the old letters that the killer had sent to police. >> that'

saying we're going to balance the budget by going after poor people, senior citizens, by going after pell grants. people talk about jobs. you have to invest to create jobs. you cut these programs and it is hard to be competitive in these economies. when you cut money for education and transportation infrastructure, it becomes more difficult to become competitive. we need to be smart about this. this approach of exempting corporate welfare, to me, is egregious. let me finally say this, and that is, i will end as i began here, i thought we would be coming back talking about how we're getting closer. and this bill, the best i can -- i hope this is just bad political theater -- but this bill is a sharp right turn. it moves us further away from where i thought we were getting . i hope it does not delay our ability to come to some sort of an agreement between the congressional leadership and the white house. i hope this is not something that further fuels this notion that somehow it does not matter whether we get a deal by august 3 or not. this is serious. and to come before the rules committee

with the theme that went through out, made sense come pelling with the call to arms and ended in time. >> what i -- as i was watching this, there were points where i was listening to the points being made by mr. ashton and i literally got sick to my stomach, envisioning the scenarios he was laying out. at those times i found myself looking at casey. is that what the jury is doing? do they take their eyes off the attorney? or are they watching casey the entire time as they listen to what the attorney is saying? >> they will watch for her reactions. those times that made you sick to your stomach, i think i was sitting here, it brought tears to my eyes to think of caylee's last moments and god held her, she didn't suffer, that the chloroform took over her first. my god, they're probably looking at casey with daggers during that i would imagine. i think that's the key when you're giving a close rg argument as a prosecutor, you want the jury to look right at the accused those moments and fix on her and say, you know what? she did it. >> do you think there's a possibility that it may result

give up pell grants and don't send your kids to college. if you're making over $1 million, you get your tax cut. that's not a deal we could support. >> my question, couldn't the gop declare victory and go home if there were no revenue increases beyond allowing the bush tax cuts to expire? apparently giving a green light by grover norquist? >> he's back pedaled from what he said just this morning. a sense of how much disarray they're in. them tell us one thing and then do another. grover norquist said what you suggested and with hours he debated himself. grover norquist can't even agree with himself. how can these republicans come to an agreement with us? >> what i'm taking away from you is that the sell is all on the gop side of the aisle, and i'm interpreting you have your ducks in a row? is that a fair statement? >> we've said from day one we will produce the votes necessary to pass an extension of the debt ceiling so long as it is balanced, doesn't hurt seniors on medicare, doesn't hurt the middle class, and involved the right balance of

the students before they come to us to figure out how much they need to fill in the gaps and get in pell grants and get the rest of the tuition money. >> each student must fill out a profile, stating what they are interested in, their major and career goals. >> it's kind of like selling yourself without sounding effortless. >> within two weeks of posting her profile, she reached her goal due to five anonymous donor. she attends city college in san francisco. she has one donor los angeles who has pledged to pay for the remaining three years of edition -- education at saint mary's college. >> that was an amazing thing to here. you feel like you win the lottery in that way because you don't realize until you go to college how much you need money in order to keep going. >> anyone can donate. >> so what we tell people it's whatever you can afford. if you can afford 50 and then you have ten other friends who have $50, you know, all of that money can get pooled together and send a scholar to college. >> the students then stay in touch with their donors. >> you update maybe every few months or s

they don't mind going after pell grants from medicare to planned parenthood to head start in order to placate the far right corporate base, the kind of freedomworks, dib armey, koch brothers, and they're getting played as fools. it's unfortunate, it has a huge impact on the fear factor that seems to be motivating the far right and washing across the republican caucus. >> thank you, senator sherrod brown. >> thank you, reverend. >>> now it's time to "meet the chairmen." ed ren den and former rnc chair michael steele. good evening to both. >> good evening, rev. >> today president obama outlined a balanced approach. take a look at this, mr. chairman. >> i believe we need a balanced approach. we need to take on spending in programs, in defense programs, in entitlement programs, and we need to take on spending in the tax code, spending on certain tax breaks, and deductions for the wealthiest americans. >> but chairman steele, is this really balanced if it's trillions of cuts? >> i think so. when you know the real driver here is spending we didn't get here because the government want collec

the students before they come to us to figure out how much they need to fill in the gaps and get in pell grants and get the rest of the the tuition money. >> each student must fill out a profile, stating what they are interested in, their major and career goals. >> it's kind of like selling yourself without sounding effortless. >> within two weeks of posting her profile, she reached her goal due to five anonymous donor. and she has one donor los angeles who has pledged to pay for the remaining three years of edition at saint mary's college. >> that was an amazing thing to here. you feel like you win the lottery in that way because you don't realize until you go to college how much you need money in order to keep going. >> anyone can donate. >> so what we tell people it's whatever you can afford. if you can afford 50 and then you have ten other friends who have $50, you know, all of that money can get pooled together and send a scholar to college. >> the students then stay in touch with their donors. >> you update maybe every few months or so and tell how is school going, what's it like,

i hear amazingly enough one of the things they don't like is the boehner bill allows pell grants to goward, helping kids go to college. if most americans knew exactly what was going on in that republican caucus they'd be amazed. they would say, they don't represent me. >> senator, at the same time, you democrats are contemplating the single biggest deficit reduction package ever passed by congress. even harry reid's version of it. and yet this is being put together without any hearings, without any real evaluation that the public has any chance to look over your shoulders. that's no way to do giant packages like this, is it? >> well, it shouldn't be. and what we should have done right from the get-go is done what has been done i believe it is 39 times in the past, which is raise the debt ceiling. but this is the first time we've had a group of people, it's not a majority of the house, it's not a majority of the congress, not a majority of the american people, but a small group of hard right people who are demanding certain things be done before they raise the debt ceiling. and we have

>>> a rally during rush hour in san francisco today as people wear orange suits in support of the pell began bay hunger strike. >>> it has been -- the pelican bay hunger strike. >>> it's been a long time coming, what made this bay area solder's funeral so special and why his casket was so small. >>> protesters dressed in orange jumpsuits marched through san francisco this evening, a show of support for california prison inmate who have been on a hunger strike the past two weeks. we have the story live from the city and it was a small but loud gathering. >> reporter: it was loud. they came right along this stretch of market street and ended up down at the pal street cable car turnaround. at one point activists went face to face with police raising their signs in support of the pelican bay inmates. it started with picking up their signs and wearing orange jumpsuits. >> prisoners have had enough, coming together from class racial barriers to say enough is enough. >> reporter: then a loud and slow march down market street. >> what's the point because there's no transparency or accountabili

pell grants cut in half. they say over and over again, "washington doesn't have a tax problem. we have a spending problem." well, let's take a look at that. if you look at non-defense discretionary over the years, what you find out when you add in inflation, it hasn't grown at all, while the military spending has gone up 74%. so, clearly, we have a road map, just with fairness we can get to where we have to get. let's not keep cutting the things we've already cut. let's cut the waste, let's cut the fraud, let's cut the abuse and let's cut these tax expenditures. i'd ask for an additional five minutes and then i'll yield to my friend from utah. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mrs. boxer: thank you, very much. so defense spending, they may look at it but they're not happy about it, even though it's gone up 74% over the last ten years. now, again, we should look at warren buffett. warren buffett made the point that he paid only 17.7% tax -- he paid only a 17.7% tax on his $46 million in earnings, while his receptionist paid 30% on her wage