scott peterson is innocent?u i'm not even sure that there was a murder committed. >> reporter: gerragos famously lost that case. his client now on death row for killing his wife laci peterson. it cost him his most famous client, michael jackson. do you regret choosing scott peterson over michael jackson? >> it was a death penalty case. i did not want to drop client. >> he said you've got to choose here. >> i told him look, i'm not going to dump one client for another. if you're not comfortable, you've got to do what you've got to do. >> reporter: jackson went on to win his sexual molestation case. the jackson trooir trial had more twists and turns than a three-ring circus, beginning with the arraignment, handled by gerragos. everybody remembers that moment when he jumped on the hood of the car. >> how in the hell did this guy at this age able to jump like that. >> reporter: gerragos shares anecdote in his book "mistrial." the book makes the case that there's something deeply wrong with the fact that the u.s. pri

it raises money for the erin peterson fund. that awarded money to aspiring college students. >>> outrage from groups after learning the 9/11 memorial in new york is charging a fee to reserve passes. new york post says the foundation that runs the memorial is charging $2 for online reservations, day of passes are free. ceo says the fee is necessary for operational needs. the 9/11 foundation has received millions in tax funded and private donations. a museum honoring victims set to open next year, after countless disputes and cost overruns. >>> after another picture perfect spring day, we're going to notice some changes to the start of the work week. amelia siegel is back to >>> some people in buoys woke up to car alarms. the fire started with a car parked outside the garage around 5:00 this morning, and quickly spread. four cars were destroyed. several others badly damaged. >> i saw them pulling the fire hoses out, laying them out. i said well, there must be a fire. so i came out and saw this particular vehicle was ablaze, all t

the event raises money for the erin peterson fund. the scholarship fund awarded more than $107,000 to aspiring college students. >> we are following all the developments on the korean peninsula. tonight the u.s. says it is ready to have peaceful talks with north korea if they agree to stop the bluster. as andrea mitchell report, it appears, kim jong-un is closer to launching a test missile than talking with american leaders. >> the contrast could not have been more dramatic. in pyongyang, runners from around the world celebrating tomorrow's birthday of kim jong-un's grandfather, the nation's founder. in tokyo, john kerry reassured japan the u.s. will defend it. the obama administration would negotiate th pyongyang under the right circumstances. >> what we ought to be talking about are the possibilities of peace. i think there are those possibilities notwithstanding the rhetoric and the provocations. >> japan was under the flight path of north korea's last missile test in february. and is now protected by u.s. provided patriot missile

not that guy again oh my god the peterson again every ten years this guy pops up i remember him from the eighty's he's a charlatan he's a shark he's a he's my god i think these out of jail so let's go back to this read it in which society group asks neal grossman i'm thirty got out of college and can't find a job anywhere what's the deal neil grossman says you might consider a career change so here we have all these students with debt and now as we said at the opening of the show it's time to hit reset because you're begging people like a hedge fund manager neil grossman neil what do i do how do i get a job and he's just telling you sucker go go do something else shine my shoes because that's all that's available to you so however if we hit the egypt but and get rid of those banks toure's forced our governments either out of office or force them to arrest the likes of steve biko and not let him get away with paying a six hundred sixteen million dollar fine for insider trading so that he can then go on and buy a destroyed dream and then make that like he celebrate torrie for him let's

now to professor peterson's point, does he have a point?sting is an important measure of what students know. >> what other means do educators have of assessing a child's performance? >> right. tests are great for assessing a child's performance. most statisticians say they're not so good at taking the extra leap to what a teacher does or principal does. we're using tests for something they're not really intended to do, and that's the problem. not the test, themselves, but the accountability policies tied to them. >> professor peterson, one of the difficulties, you make the point well when you say these perverse incentives encourage the kind of cheating if you know the reward at the end of it is $10,000 or $50,000 extra. >> or keeping your job. >> or keeping your job. i accept that. but also isn't the fact of the matter when you have a child, both of whose parents may be in jail, who's in the care of a local authority, who may suffer all kinds of issues personally, how on earth is that child going to be helped by simply testing in this kind

tax is austin peterson thanks. and so they said it couldn't be done but there is finally something that both progressives and tea partiers are up in arms about together and that's monsanto progressives and tea partiers alike are furious over the past the passage of the months santo protection act which exempts the biotech giant from basically from the courts from judicial review last month this provision was slipped into a spending bill behind closed doors in congress and what it does is it it's a blame effort to shield months santo away from wall but a new food and water watch report highlights even more ways monsanto has avoided regulatory scrutiny over the years according the report monsanto's board members have worked directly for the food and drug administration they've advised the department of agriculture and they've even served on president obama's committee for trade policy and negotiations monsanto has used these positions to influence public policy and opinion and pressure lawmakers into turning a blind

famous for defending the infamous, including scott peterson.you really believe scott peterson was innocent? >> okay, i was -- >> reporter: really? >> i will tell you, i'm not even sure in that case that there was a murder committed. >> reporter: geragos famously lost that case. his client now on death row for killing his pregnant wife laci peterson, a crime so vile it cost geragos his most famous client, michael jackson. >> i told him, look, i'm not going to dump one client for another. if you're not comfortable, you've got to do what you've got to do. >> reporter: geragos in his newest book "mistrial" makes the case that there's something terribly wrong with the fact the u.s. prison population has doubled since 1980. no other country in the world has imprisoned so many of its citizens. >> your book is the case for legal reform from, if you'll forgive me, the scumbag lawyer's point of view. >> we get a lot of hate mail. >> reporter: it was ever thus for defense lawyers. what was your favorite movie? >> probably "to kill a mockingbird." >> you n

peterson's right about that.ecause when you have a candidate for president who talks about 40% and talks about two cadillacs and you have someone talking about illegitimate rape and just the other day had someone use the term wetbacks in an interview, you've got serious problems. >> wow. >> the republicans need to rebrand, they need to rethink what they're doing. they can win on message points. they really can. but we have to get out there and sell that conservative governance and why it's better and not use incendiary language that turns people off. let's bring some people in for heaven's sakes. >> hogan gidley speaking absolute sense to the gop and professor james peterson, thank you both. >> scary you said that. >> it's true, though. >>> coming up, it's spring and love is in the air. stay with us. >> vice president biden and i have worked together on so many important issues. i know what a personal victory it was for him to see the violence against women act reauthorized. >> there's no woman like hillary clint

and peterson why he doesn't want to help toddlers learn in just a moment. download give up location to. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't work so now with your mobile device you can watch or see any time anyway. for the international landlords in the very heart of moscow. and in other news buried in the obama budget that was released earlier this week is a provision that would increase the federal tax on cigarettes in order to pay for early childhood education programs the budget calls for a ninety four cent a pack hike on federal cigarette taxes which would raise roughly seventy eight billion dollars over the next ten years anti-smoking groups and education advocates are applauding the proposed tax hike but many say that the increased cigarette tax will ultimately hurt middle and lower income americans the portion of the population that contributes to the majority of cigarette purchases so is a slight tax increase worth it if it has the potential to help save the lives of millions of americans

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rich peterson is with me. he joins me now to break that down for us. interesting note. do you think the second quarter has a problem? >> i think you look at the history -- numbers in '08 and 2012 here those are -- probably concerned about how the economy was going to fair and if there was going to be a change in leadership. more importantly, while on friday the s&p 500 hit a historic high, what's ahead is really a bit of a mystery in the second quarter. i think investors have some guidance. tomorrow we have new car sales. wednesday, the adp number. thursday, the jobless claims. friday, the all important nonfarm payrolls. i think those will give us some guidance for investors going into the second quarter. >> i'm just wondering if people are going to figure out that rninings are just no great shake. let's talk about what you and i just talked about during the commercial break. earnings for the first quarter expected to be up .48%. not even half of a percent. earnings growth for the first quarter. that stinks. >> we've been down this road before. at the start of the fourt

peterson foundation for making this possible, michael peterson, mr. president, for being here. we're going today a quick, rapid round, senator. first, a question from my boss, john harris, editor-in-chief. when the president releases his budget tomorrow, is it important for him to say explicitly that these spite element cuts that are bake -- entitlement cuts that are baked into his budget are there because it's the right thing to do? he's been saying so far look what i've done for republicans. should the president say to his party, no, this is the right thing to do? >> absolutely. we talked earlier about the unique role the president has in terms of communicating to the american people. he has the megaphone. individual members of congress have a role to play. of i try to do it back home. i had a teletown hall meeting yesterday where i talked about in this issue and talked about some of the realities of not dealing with it, what it'll mean for the economy -- >> so you're going to look for him to say what? >> look for him to explain to the american people that we have to address

fourteen innocent people died needless deaths in the city of west texas last week i discussed in peterson why he doesn't want to do what's necessary to have more workplace does it ever. do the future good mix of commuters these days so super is the memory for that russian researchers have got a few ideas that could make cognitive computing a reality one of the processors got a radical new architecture that promises unparalleled power design for the stars as that got you all under the collar don't worry because the lead is cooling systems ensure neither you nor the globe's top super computers break a sweat. the future. download the. publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. in screw news that massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed fourteen people and injured hundreds more in the city of west texas last wednesday wasn't a random tragedy is apparently the direct result of thirty years of poor funding poor oversight and intensive

fourteen innocent people died needless deaths in the city of west texas last week and ask us and peterson why he doesn't want to do what's necessary for having more workplace disasters at this but. let me let me i want to know what no let me ask you a question. here on this board it's never been a debate we have our nights out. the truth is that it's a bad thing there's a gap here it is a race with the idea we talk about the name and we. you know sometimes you see this. story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know how hard it's welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out of that thing that we americans call i don't. i'm sorry. did i hear what. you said. you know what that is my chair so you want us to feature it on the liberal press. usually. you know we're going to distract us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that's all the fish unless that garbage you call that breaking ne

. >> state senator, chad peterson and scott see it differently. >> i don't think mr. williams would have paid for his daughter's wedding if she hadn't been the governor's daughter. >> i have three daughters and to me, when you're a father and there's a wedding for one of your children, especially your daughter, that's an obligation that you take on and to the extent somebody helps pay for that. that's an obligation, that's a gift you need to report. >> many lawmakers are now calling for stricter disclosure laws and limits to gifts. but some say we also need limits to campaign contributions. >> mcdonnell is proposing the law be changed to require all gifts over $500 to be reported within ten days. peggy fox, wusa9. >> now in addition to that fbi probe into star scientific's relationship with the governor. the company is facing a security's investigation. >> salmonella, staff, even fecal matter. tonight, a consumer alert about what could be in your ground turkey. reveals the meat that some consider to be a healthier choice can also be a breeding ground for antibuy yours

. >> state senator, chad peterson and delegate, scott, see it differently. >> i don't think mr. williams would have paid for his daughter's wedding if she hadn't been the governor's daughter. i have three daughters, and to me, when you're a father and there's a wedding for one of your children, especially your daughter, that's an obligation you take . that's a gift you need to report. >> many lawmakers are calling for stricter disclosure laws and limits to gifts. some say we also need limits to campaign contributions. >> mcdonnell is proposing the law be changed to require all gifts over $500 to be reported within ten days. peggy fox, wusa9. >> now in addition to that fbi probe, the scientific relationship with the governor, facing securities investigation. >>> tonight, president obama is preparing to send lethal weapons to rebels. at a press conference earlier today, he would be willing to take such actions in syria if the international community could prove that president assad was using chemical weapons. john kerry is headed to syria. he will make a decision about supplying a

parent debbie peterson was on campus when the first call came in. student snapped this photo and added his own caption was everyone was escorted out. >> this is the third day in a row. it's a bit ridiculous but we're also really tired. it's scary for everybody. >> missay they found no explosives and called the threats a hoax. but parents and even some students are not amused. >> it is getting kind of annoying. they are going to add days at the end of the school year. >> may have put the students in danger of missing the instructional units required by the state. >> we will be looking at how we would have to -- if we had to make up those minutes. >> could that mean extra days on the school year? >> possibly. >> reporter: with about 2600 students here, officials confirm they are looking into whether a single student could have been responsible. it could get that person expelled or charged with a felony. the superintendent tells me police are following leads. they are even going to give students a way to text in anonymous tips. live in antioch, eric ra

par 72. 4 shots off the pavements 3 way tie for the lead that includes peterson birdie 18 here. with if these ladies. fenl if you are weekend in atlanta began with skills competition. university of detroit mercy dog anderson. no mercy. winning slam dunk title. 1 80 spin with old school reverse cup finish are you kidding me? that was with authority. abc 7 sports. i like the championship. >> difficult. >> 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. may have been confucius who said he's not about yours. >> if i could dunk that's the way would i do it. >> all right it's back. >> some within dear is it the same door? we have the

. >> we also have web core and jeff peterson here as well for any questions. >> good morning board. you have a very long start to report. i'm not going through every bit of it. we had six qualification package received at the end of june last year. we reviewed and scored and only one failed to meet the requirements. we had 5 major fabricated structured steel. one was a general contractor and others did large jobs to specialized subs. we issued the package at the end of october and the bid period was extended twice so we can answer a lot of bidders questions which were technical. we had 8 addendums all to reduce the price and to make it easier for them and get competition. the fact of the matter is that on march 7, this month we received only one bid from the general contractor, which was $259.5 million. over a hundred million more than the engineers estimated. we analyzed what was in their bid and we made inquiry and made attempts to explain their bid and because they had 4 major subs to do fabrication on this job and 4 were the previous prequalified bidders but they did actually re

. >> we also have web core and jeff peterson here as well for any questions. >> good morning board. you have a very long start to report. i'm

tanya peterson director of the san francisco zoo. i want to report on march attendance. we had a great month. in fact it may of the best month of the fiscal year and a combination of the weather and a new tiger cub coming out. we had a big difference of 28,000 visitors. as of april attendance as of tax day -- people still came on text day. we were shocked. we know the exploritorium opened yesterday and i thought i would give the year to date numbers so it's easier to see them so if i could put the powerpoint on. there we go. so far remember our fiscal year is like yours and ends in june. here are the numbers and last year we were at 563. again march was really significant. that got us to matching last year's and beating those numbers and seeing the break down on the screen. paid visitors are listed here. we actually had more free -- people coming in free than we anticipated and all good. these are students and community access and our free days. we had this amount coming in free and our membership exceeded numbers at 162,000 visits versus the budget of 150,000. i wanted

. >> well, casey anthony, not drew peterson. >> laci peterson. >> right. >> the kids next door got inthat's the attraction of these cases. it is so improbable, illogical and disgusting in many instances. but the public is obsessed with the fact, wow, that could happen to the people who live right down the street. >> very sad. thanks for joining us. >> a pleasure. >>> up next, the father of a recovering addict challenging everything we think we know about addiction. his ideas certainly had our office today. i'm phyllis, and i have diabetic nerve pain. when i first felt the diabetic nerve pain, of course, i had no idea what it was. i felt like my feet were going to sleep. it progressed from there to burning like i was walking on hot coals to like a thousand bees that were just stinging my feet. i have a great relationship with my doctor. he found lyrica for me. [ female announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doc

james peterson, associate professor at lehigh university. both are msnbc contributors.i want you to get serious and not kick the can down the road when i ask you for an answer to this question. the president's budget involves major concessions for progressives. what is the president expecting in return from republicans? >> i will be serious, and there will be no can kicking. he's expecting a compromise on the revenue side of the equation. you know, they talk about a grand bargain in this town here in d.c. really when you get right down to it, that means the president and democrats offer cuts to social insurance to the republicans and in turn they agree to new revenues. and the president's budget has $580 billion over 10 years in precisely that. you have to remember, talking about speaker boehner, it wasn't long ago that he was offering $400 billion in tax revenues in a deal with the president, but he has very much backed off that. and as you played in your little sn snippets there, does not seem to be willing to only to the table in the spirit of compromise. >> right. j

. >> good morning tanya peterson director of the san francisco zoo. as you read in the report our february attendance wildly exceeded budget. we finished the budget at over 63,000 visitors. we budgeted 40,000 based on attendance in prior years. of course good weather had a lot to do with it and we will take it. as we are preparing for next year's budget i would give you a snapshot of our current metrics and i will put them up on the powerpoint please. so just where we are as we come around to the end the fiscal year. we are at 217 employees. i wanted to compare that to 2009 and we are slowly growing. and he we took a census of the animals and the growth of 500 animals. thanks to our chief vet dr. crawford. he has reducing the active cases at a thousand. and he is doing a great job there. our membership sales are exceeding or at budget, very close there as well and due to generous gifts our donation budget is above budget. something that is really just stunned us this year the number of weddings occurring at the zoo. we have contracted with an outside

the guys who were probably talking to him were kevin nah and carl peterson who lost to him over four rounds. the other 40 guys that missed the cut where he made the cut so really amazing for a 14-year- old eighth grader. >> what an inspiration for a youn i've had this love son in golf. play golf the rest of your life, right. >> this is why the masters and augusta international has had this tournament in china because they want to extend the world of golf and the game of golf and to help grow the game overseas. and this is a big thing i'm sure that the tv ratings in asian were huge this week. so pretty wild stuff. >> 14 years old, incredible stuff for the kid from china. we're going to take a break and wrap it up next on par 5. before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all

today the president will host celebrities like minnesota vikings adrian peterson and nascar driver, danica patrick. even robby novak who plays kid president will be on hand. the family of high day yeah pendleton, the teenage girl shot and killed will also be in attendance. sunday, eyes were focused on pope francis and his first easter sunday mass. >> narrator: they came by the thousands. a quarter of a million welcomed pope francis as he delivered his first easter mass. the faithful lining st. peter's square to hear a message calling for peace. he appealed for peace between israelis and palestinians, for refugees pleaing syria and what could be the next big conflict for reconciliation between north and south korea. >> we wanted to come and get the blessing from the pope and feel the love and community here toda today, and that's what we did. we're hoping this will be a new sign for world peace. >> pope francis urged the faithful to be good stewards for nature. nbc's claudia lobango was in st. francis square. >> reporter: it was short, simple, somber. once again, it touched the hearts of th

par 72. 4 shots off the pavements 3 way tie for the lead that includes peterson birdie 18 here.ith if these ladies. fenl if you are weekend in atlanta began with skills competition. university of detroit mercy dog anderson. no mercy. winning slam dunk title. 1 80 spin with old school reverse cup finish are you kidding me? that was with authority. abc 7 sports. i like the championship. >> difficult. >> 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. may have been confucius who said he's not about yours. >> if i could dunk that's the way would i do it. >> all right it's back. >> some within dear is it the same door? same door? we have the >> look at the wake up weather. may need few extra minutes in the morning. driz he el in some spots. light breeze. temperatures upper 40's to low 50's at 5:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. low to mid 50's. mike is here at in the morning if with updates. >> magical mystery door returned at golden gate park. >> it appeared at the base of tree removed this week as we told you. the officials said the door could harm the tree. but after a public out cry the door came

for our creative as well and webcore builder and is what aren't they building and we want to thank peterson and shelly doury who's one of the senior executive's in the web cor community and they built the beautiful oakland cathedral and acacademy of science and certainly at work on mass coney center expansion the early work on the warriors a marine eye and so many iconic projects in both northeastern and fortunately and southern california and wells fargo such an integral institution and part of of the fabric of our society and vaginal foalgee president the bay area region together encompassing this whole wide region for wells far going and we are soon going to hear from tim quinn written economist from wells far go and going to get some insight from him and a major focus and this says so much about the strength of our economy and the economy is small business lending and really promising news and 2012 wells far go expended scene billion dollars in that now loan commitments to small businesses across the united states over 30% in 2011 and that is great news so thank you wells fargo and many

par 72. 4 shots off the pavements 3 way tie for the lead that includes peterson birdie 18 here.ith if these ladies. fenl if you are weekend in atlanta began with skills competition. university of detroit mercy dog anderson. no mercy. winning slam dunk title. 1 80 spin with old school reverse cup finish are you kidding me? that was with authority. abc 7 sports. i like the championship. >> difficult. >> 7 sports brought to you by river rock casino. may have been confucius who said he's not about yours. >> if i could dunk that's the way would i do it. >> all right it's back. >> some within dear is it the same door? same door? we have the >> look at the wake up weather. may need few extra minutes in the morning. driz he el in some spots. light breeze. temperatures upper 40's to low 50's at 5:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. low to mid 50's. mike is here at in the morning if with updates. >> magical mystery door returned at golden gate park. >> it appeared at the base of tree removed this week as we told you. the officials said the door could harm the tree. but after a public out cry the door came

and you talked about i guess, peterson talked about irrit ating on the design of the system and has that been exhausted. >> some of that has to do with specifying that. but i don't know if you want to add anything, but whether it is the type of welding and material, and the engineer's right now are looking at that. and we hope to have that all pulled together for the 25th. >> that is going to be done that quickly. >> we are trying to do everything that we can. and we spent a lot of time asking them why, in the process of trying to get their price to where we felt it was a reasonable and acceptable price and web corp was with them many hours and they gave us a list of what we were concerned with and both of those that we do as well. do you expect skamko to be one of the bidders? >> i believe that they indicated yes that they are interested in one or more or all three and a co

bob peterson voting committee. look good luck tonight. thank you, thank you. oh, and thanks for the bathrobe oh... nothing. people get out of the shower, they're cold. hey, dr. crane love the watch. . well, thanks. it was nothing really. it's a pretty good likeness of me though, isn't it? daphne: can we sit down? i have got it down. oh, daphne, we're at table eight. this isn't our table. it is now. hey, isn't that fletcher grey? to s frasier: i believe it is. you really got your work cut out for you here. that guy's a class act. i've been listening to him for 20 years. i don't usually do this but i'm going to go shake his hand. hey, guys. oh, roz. my fellow nominee. those gifts were a great idea. everybody's talking about them. did you see the valet parking board? half the key chains there are ours. this is a very big night for me. please don't spoil it by making fun of who i brought. i thought you were bringing brad macnamara. he got called out on a story. some hospital went up in flames. do you know anyone who has worse luck than i do? hi, dr. crane. oh, hi,