harry reid has -- harry reid has a campaign appearance with president obama.s week's "q&a" with univision's jorge ramos. after that, another chance to see prime minister's questions with david cameron. >> c-span is a bit -- available in more than 100 million homes, bringing you politics, history, and nonfiction books, created by america's cable company. >> the nevada republican party held its annual convention on friday, posting rnc chairman -- hosting rnc chairman michael steele and candidate sharron angle. this is 50 minutes. >> this is a special time. how is it going out here in nevada? [applause] i hope somebody up in here is ready to win. i hope somebody is ready to win in nevada. are you ready? all right now. i just want to make sure. you have your work cut out for you. you have some things to do. it is important that you pull yourselves together. pull yourselves up by your bootstraps. lean over and help a neighbor pull themselves up. lean over and help that crazy uncle. family and friends, it is the moment to go out and communicate a powerful message. w

peering ahead -- harry reid.plause] i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago, and we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight shooter. he is a man of his word. he comes across as soft-spoken. even when he is in front of a crowd, he is like, well -- we are trying here. we are trying hard. that is just how harry is, but anybody who knows harry knows he is made of tough stuff. harry is tough. a lot of people in washington forget where they came from. harry remembers every single day. a lot of people instead of showing leadership, making difficult decisions -- they do what is politically expedient. the end of making the choices that give them the best chance of staying in washington. that is not harry reid. he does not always do what is easy. he does not always do what is popular, but he always does what is right for the people of nevada. [applause] as senate majority leader, he has always done what is right. you have got to send him back. he likes to brag about this

peering ahead -- harry reid. [applause] i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago, and we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight shooter. he is a man of his word. he comes across as soft-spoken. even when he is in front of a crowd, he is like, well -- we are trying here. we are trying hard. that is just how harry is, but anybody who knows harry knows he is made of tough stuff. harry is tough. a lot of people in washington forget where they came from. harry remembers every single day. a lot of people instead of showing leadership, making difficult decisions -- they do what is politically expedient. the end of making the choices that give them the best chance of staying in washington. that is not harry reid. he does not always do what is easy. he does not always do what is popular, but he always does what is right for the people of nevada. [applause] as senate majority leader, he has always done what is right. you have got to send him back. he likes to brag about

he was a lot like harry reid.1948, harry truman campaigned across this country, making the case against the do nothing republicans -- do-nothing republicans. [applause] for the last two years, harry has been dealing with the do- nothing republican leadership in the senate, just like character men. -- harry truman. despite their tactics and political maneuvering, he has been making progress. he does not give up. he does not give in. he keeps on fighting duty outlasts them. he has changed -- he keeps on fighting. the outlasts them. he has changed the landscape of america. [applause] we have taken quite a few punches as a nation. about 17 months

we're ready to defeat harry reid. we're ready to take on that the challenge, and we are ready to tell them, keep your eye on the ball, harry, because the ball is not out here with social security, although it is a big part of it. social security has been rated and pillaged by harry reid for years. he does not want us to talk about that part, but we need to talk about that part because that is part of the debt that harry reid has created. so let's remind him that it is about the economy. the ball is not over here with the department of education. the ball has a part to do it the target of education because they are spending dollars that need to be better spent here in the state. but remind him, is about the economy. the ball is not about sharron angle. the ball is about harry reid, and it is about the economy that harry reid has been systematically destroying through these policies of stimulus, bailout, obamacare, cap and trade -- we can go on and on and on. [applause] so remember, it is all about 14% unemployment. it

does anyone here believe harry reid? do we trust harry reid when he says things like that?efit of the doubt? this is what is going on now with energy. harry reid has temporarily taken a cap-and-trade provisions out of this bill to get it through the senate and into a conference committee where henry waxman has already promised to put cap-and-trade back in so that they can force it through in a lame duck section after the election. john kerry said they are going to do the same thing. it is not a big secret. they just think we are not paying attention, but we are. even if they were doing that, the senate energy bill sent billions of more dollars to the same green jobs racquets intended for the capitalist system. bottomline we need to tell every member of the u.s. senate, you vote no on any energy bill this congress. they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt on that issue. vote no on any energy bill. [applause] the lame duck thread is actually much greater band just the energy issue although obviously cap-and-trade is an enormous, enormous problem that will in the words of

in the meantime, as senator reid has just said, we have an obligation to the american people. we have an obligation to our country and that is to respond to the oil spill in the gulf. that is why senator reid will bring this admittedly narrow limited bill to the floor because he is determined to do what we can in the timeframe that we have before the august break. that will address some of our energy independence and some of -- some of our energy dependence and some of the oil spill issues. let me be crystal clear -- this legislation that he has proposed does not replace climate legislation. it does not replace comprehensive energy legislation president obama call me before this meeting and said point blank that he has committed to working in these next days at a more intensive pace together with carol browner and other members of the administration to help bring together the ability to find 60 votes for that comprehensive legislation. the leader is committed to getting that comprehensive legislation to the floor as soon as possible, whenever that might turn out to the parent

reid and his was spelled reid.]t hardly describes the foundation of the building of for which it presides. each of us speaking today recognizes what a privilege it is to call this place our workplace. but countless local slaves labor here long before we or any senators and congressman before us could enjoy that honor. their tasks were black breaking -- back breaking, yet they somehow found the strength to fashion the greatest design. the cards in carry the stones to a structure in which leaders would shape and nation. their hands built a temple to liberty, though many of them would never know that blessing'' firsthand. they toiled with nothing more than the hope and faith that a promise would be filled the inside the halls they built, the rights of the defendant to be free. to elect the leaders who would represent them and serve as their representatives. in this place where so much of american history is written, it is our duty to ensure that none of us, no matter how false, is increased from national memory. that i

harry reid had called the surge in iraq a failure before it had even started. he called general david petraeus a liar. people will say strange things at different times. but i think for the new candidates, the rol being a candidate running for office is different i think that's what some of them might have imagined, particularly with the kind of scrutiny that they're going to get. for example, in nevada, sharon angle running against the majority leader whose approval numbers are very low are going to have tens of millions of dollars of negative advertising run against her. so i think that's what the playing field looks like this time. voters are going to have to make their decision whether they want to continue business as usual in washington, d.c. or whether they want to send somebody to washington who is going to operate as a check on single-party power on unpopular policies. >> a few questions on fund-raising for you. the big story this week is that the second quarter fund-raising reports are do. give me an assessment of how your candidates did. >> i think r

harry reid and the liberal democrats. will jack a vote against harry reid? i don't think so. for mitch mcconnell to be leader. he is opposed to changing the navigable -- deleting that word, adding these new regulations. the regulations are coming from the national democrat party. i know there are people here who are democrats. we have conservative democrats in kentucky, but the national party left you 20 years ago. jack may want to run as a moderate, but he will go up there and his first vote cast will be for harry reid. harry reid is not your friend on these issues. that is the problem. that is what this election will be about. you have to decide, who are the people wanting to change these regulations? who is talking about making the chesapeake bay agreement and nationalizing it? they're coming out of president obama's and administration. who are the people he is appointing? who are these 43 czars he is appointing? the person he has to head medicare, do these that is what this is going to be about. if he is truly for the epa, he has to vote with the republicans because that

harry reid. [applause] >> as we have heard [laughter] the same year that president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, a statue built by slave was lowered onto the capitol dome. the untold story is that we already know is less than reed blood -- [laughter] -- his last name was reid -- but there are different ways to edell it and his was spell rei reid. the title of the capital's crowning feature belies its own history. it hardly describes the foundation of the building over which it presides. each of us speaking today recognizes what a privilege it is to call this place are workplace. countless local slaves labored here long before we or any centers or congressman before us could enjoy that honor. their tasks or backbreaking. there are condemned to a disgraceful injustice but they found the strength to fashion the most graceful. design through blistering summers and biting winters and snake infested quarries, they carted carry this does that would shape the structures in which players w

reid c-span's latest book "the supreme court." candid conversations with all the justices, active and retired. now available in hardcover and also as an e-book. >> "washington journal" continues. host: walter leger joins us from new orleans, senior partner at leger & shaw, to talk about the claims process. let us begin right from the first step. if you want to file a claim with bp, what do you do first? guest: actually at the present it is a little bit confusing because they are in a transition between bp handling the claims and the new gulf coast claims facility headed by ken feinberg. right now there is a 1-800 number you can call to get an contact with bp. if you have a business loss claim or claim that you believe is related to the oil spill, you can call this number can go to one of the claims centers set up across the gulf coast and you make an application. host: what happens next? guest: then it bp, you meet with bp officials and the officials asked for proper documentation, if you are lucky. if you provided the documentati

but here locally -- age, i think you meant harry reid. caller: excuse me, harry reid.charlie rangel is on the mind this morning. ok. yes, with harry reid. but here locally we have a congress man. he is against everything. he wants to decommission the nuclear power plants at indian point and his minions -- i don't know if he personally has come out against it, but his minions here, his environmentalists have come out against exploration for natural gas. here we have it. the democrats talk about natural gas and yet they will not allow exploration and drilling for it but the process called hydraulic fracturing here in bed shale belts where natural gas is plentiful, and they won't allow it to be explored for and drill the floor and brought to market. so again, we see that to face -- two-facedness illustrated by those two points. host: david mention charlie rangel. the reason why he was on his mind because it is the front page of many newspapers, that charlie rangel faces ethics charges. there is going to be a public hearing next week. back to energy legislation and david's

so, if harcombrry reid is sincere and he really -- so if harry reid is sincere answered really wants to get unemployment benefits to the people in this country, he can wrap it up in a reconciliation package, pass it in a simple majority and send it over here to the house where the speaker would almost certainly bring unemployment benefits to the floor of the house and the gentleman from florida, nerve america knows, the votes are here in the house right now to pass those extensions. but they can't do that right away. they've got to spend a day or two or three more beating up on republicans, making false allegations to try to convince the american people that these demons that are knocking at the pearly gates, may god have mercy on your souls, according to mr. grayson, are somehow trying to keep those resources out of the hands of hardworking americans. and they wonder why america is cynical. and they wonder why their credibility has gone down the drain, they wonder why the popularity of congress is at the lowest point ever and the popularity of the speaker may be, at least in modern

as far as -- i am no fan of harry reid. feel he should have been -- he is not as politically astute as he needs to be. he should have been tougher. heat is providing legislation that will help the american people. the republicans have stopped him at every turn. in terms of -- it is not because of money, it is his contender, even when she has a platform to speak, her self-proclaimed press conference, she will not take questions. as far as andrew brightbart, he is responsible for what happened, because regardless of whether the naacp head of the tapes in their possession, which they should have reviewed more closely, he intentionally edited the tapes to cast aspersion on this woman and the administration. no one is fooled by the allies and the innuendoes that is being propagated to the american people in the name of those that want to be back in power who ran this country into the ground and now are angry. guest: estuary word during the bush it mensuration, go to our web site and look at some of the efforts that we had during

well, harry reid, when he was on the other side of the barrage, of how bad harry reid was, he was in trouble. now the last poll is up seven points. i'll bet anything -- i'm not allowed to bet -- but i bet harry reid wins. to paraphrase mark twain. i think the reports of our demise are premature. >> the naacp had a convention. and they passed a resolution saying that elements of the tea party are racist. do you think elements of the tea party are racist? >> well, the truth is. at least elements involved with some of the tea party folks expressed racist views. we saw it on television. i wouldn't characterize the tea party adds racist. members, people on the periphery of their things have expressed unfortunate comments. again, it was all over tv, your network. black congressman walking up the stairs of the capitol. i don't believe, the president doesn't believe that the tea party is a racist organization. we don't believe that. very conservative. very different views on government and a whole lot of things. but it is not a racist organization. >> one of the big issues in this election,

instead reid and other democrats will push for a narrow measure that improves energy efficiency and looks to increase liability costs for companies involved in oil spills. >>> also on capitol hill, the senate has voted to approve a measure funding president obama's troop increase in afghanistan after stripping out more than $20 billion in domestic spending. house democrats were hoping to include $10 billion in grants to avoid teacher lay-offs, money for a summer jobs program, and improve security along the u.s./mexico border. the $60 billion bill, which is now limited chiefly toward funding, foreign aid, and medical care funding for veterans will head to the house where it faces an uncertain future. >>> a house investigative committee has dealt a serious blow to new york representative charles rangel, charging the 80-year-old congressman with multiple ethics violations. details of the charges against rangel are expected to be revealed next week, but sources say rangel has racked up violations for wrongful use of rent-stabilized manhattan apartments and failing to report rental income from

and as chip reid reports, the man once in charge of the cemetery was asked to explain himself before congress. >> i accept full responsibility for all of my actions. >> reporter: john metzler, who spent the past 19 years overseeing arlington cemetery, said the buck stops with him but said he only discovered the problem recently. problem recently, infuriating senator claire mccaskill. >> and the notion that you would come in here and act like you didn't know about it until a month ago is offensive. you did know about it. and you did nothing. >> reporter: a response by mccaskil's subcommittee said metzler knew about the problem five years ago. >> people who had worked for you had had enough and they blew the whistle. >> reporter: so how could such bureaucratic bumbling consider on such sacred ground? >> anything done by hand for 140-plus years, there has to be errors somewhere. some errors somewhere. >> higgenbothom and metler, both forced to retire, spent $8 million trying to computerize the records a method that ended in failure. >> this is not complicated. it's called keeping track

our chief white house correspondent chip reid is there, as well. chip, good evening to you. >> reporter: well, good evening, jeff. presidential vacations have a long history of generating criticism, and this one is no different. for the obama family, vacation means non-stop activity in less than two days on the maine coast, they've been seen touring a lighthouse, taking in scenery from a mountaintop, boating in the harbor, going for a hike and getting ice cream. >> this is terrific. >> reporter: off camera they've also gone biking, swimming and played tennis, but whether they're in public view or not, presidential vacations are always under a microscope. the first president bush was criticized over his passion for fast, gas-guzzling boats, president clinton about his hobnobbing with wealthy friends on martha's vineyard. earlier this week first lady michelle obama raised questions when she urged vacationers to come to the gulf. >> one of the best ways that fellow americans can help is to come on down here and spend some money. >> some republicans sa

in the meantime, as senator reid has just said, we have an obligation to the american people. we have an obligation to our country. that is to respond to the oil spill in the gulf. that is why senator reid is going to bring this admittedly narrow, limited bill to the four because he is determined to do what we can in the timeframe that we have before the august break. that will address some of our energy independence -- some of our energy dependence and some of the oil spill issues. but maybe crystal clear. as senator reid said, this legislation that he has proposed does not replace climate legislation. it does not replace comprehensive energy legislation. president obama called me before this meeting and said point blank that he is committed to working in these next days at a more intensive pace, together with carol browner and other members of the administration, to find the 60 votes for the comprehensive legislation. the leader is committed to getting that comprehensive legislation to the floor as soon as possible. senator lieberman and i will continue to work with their co

chip reid, cbs news, the white house. >>> this morning on "the early show," new revelations about then phone rant. >>> and a performance by sting. i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." my job is to hunt it down. i'm fred lemond, and i'm in charge of bp's efforts to remove oil from these waters. bp has taken full responsibility for the cleanup and that includes keeping you informed. every morning, over 50 spotter planes and helicopters take off and search for the oil. we use satellite images, infrared and thermal photography to map and target the oil. then, the boats go to work. almost 6,000 vessels. these are thousands of local shrimp and fishing boats organized into task forces and strike teams. plus, specialized skimmers from around the world. we've skimmed over 27 million gallons of oil/water mixture and removed millions more with other methods. we've set out more than 8 million feet of boom to protect the shoreline. i grew up on the gulf coast and i love these waters. we can't keep all the oil from coming ashore, but i'm gonna do everything i can to stop it, and we'll

chip reid reports. >> reporter: the president joined the chorus of administration officials offering her an apology. >> she did accept his apology? >> yes. >> reporter: the white house says it took the president three tries over two days to reach her. she called it a very good conversation. >> he wanted me to know he's supportive. and i've been dealing with some of the same issues he's had to deal with. >> reporter: sherrod was fired monday after a conservative website released portions of a speech she gave earlier this year. she appeared to say that years ago she was reluctant to help a struggling farmer because he was white, but the full speech shows she was describing the need for racial reconciliation. >> when the president said, i think that's -- there's an opportunity for you to continue that work if you want to do so. >> reporter: sherrod says she hasn't decided if she'll accept that offer. there may be good reason for the president's public silence. the last time he stepped into a race controversy was a year ago when he criticized the arrest of his friend, professor henry lou

chip reid is our chief white house correspondent. chip, the president and the prime minister are off to a bit of a rocky start. >> reporter: well, katie, the plan was for president obama and prime minister cameron to focus on the special relationship between america and great britain. instead, they focused on the not-so-special relationship between america and b.p. british prime minister david cameron came to the white house to find common ground with president obama on issues from afghanistan to the global economy. it was, though, the american furor over british oil giant b.p. that overshadowed everything else. >> i completely understand the anger that exists right across america. the oil spill in the gulf of mexico is a catastrophe. >> reporter: but it's not just the oil spill. b.p. is now at the center of a second explosive controversy-- the release last year from a scottish prison of convicted terrorist abdelbaset al megrahi who was serving a life sentence for his role in bringing down pan am flight 103 over lockerbie scotland in

>> couric: chip reid at the white house. chip, thank you. the sherrod case has put a spotlight on the u.s.d.a.'s long history of discrimination against black farmers. more about that now from national correspondent dean reynolds. >> reporter: willie adams 60- acre georgia farm has been in his family since 1938 and he wants to hold on to its red clay and green pastures for generations to come. but the fight to keep it is increasingly stressful. >> high blood pressure, almost a heart attack. ( laughs ) oh, yeah. a lot of stress. >> reporter: adams is one of a dwindling number of african american farmers, some 33,000 in all. >> we want equal justice! >> reporter: they're hoping congress will at last end decades of discrimination against them and appropriate the $1.25 billion they and their ancestors won in a settlement with the department of agriculture in february. a court found the farmers had been systematically denied aid solely because they were black. loans, grants, and subsidies that white farmers received. willie adams says u.s.d.a. off

>> couric: chip reid at the white house tonight, chip, thank you. and on the matter of jobs, chip mentioned the stimulus program the president was touting today in holland, michigan. our cynthia bowers was there. >> reporter: president barack obama climbed into an electric car today hoping to prove his stimulus program is a jolt to job creation. >> i'm telling you guys... i'm telling you, i recommend them. >> reporter: he announced the second battery factory being built here with federal stimulus money. >> this is about more than just building a new factory. it's about building a better future for this city, for this state, for this country. >> reporter: stimulus projects like these have pumped nearly $500 million into the local economy, but folks here say "you've shown us the money, now show us the jobs." local business owner becky dewind got $94,000 to help develop new machinery, but the excavating work it's designed for never materialize so she's added no new hires. >> i haven't had one job in one of my divisions in all of 2010. >> reporter: dewi

i want to thank majority leader reid. i want to thank especially senator rockefeller and the entire senate for making this procedure and this process work so flawlessly for allowing west virginia to go through the process we have. they've been most gracious. i truly want to you to carry that back to everybody for us. but the time has now come to appoint someone to the senate who will look out for west virginia who will work hard for west virginia and is a proud west virginiaian. i'm now extremely proud, very, very proud to appoint cart goodwin to the united states senate. [applause] >> regardless of whoever occupies this seat now and in the future, it will always be known as west virginia's united states senate seat that was occupied for nearly 52 years by our beloved senator robert c. byrd. however, i'm truly confident that mr. goodwin will look out for west virginiaians and i know he's going to work very hard. i've worked shoulder-to-shoulder with him for four years. i know the man. i know that west virginia is better o

here's our chief white house correspondent chip reid. >> reporter: as the economy was collapsing and the government was spending billions to bail out wall street banks, bank executives were showering themselves with bonuses-- that, according to a new government report by federal pay czar ken feinberg. in just five months from october 2008 to february 2009, 17 major banks, all bailout recipients gave top executives $1.6 billion in bonuses, golden parachutes and other lavish payments. feinberg found the payments to be "ill-advised," but since they weren't illegal, he is powerless to do anything about it, despite the fact that taxpayers helped make the payments possible. so you cannot claw this money back. >> that's right. >> reporter: you do not have that authority. >> i do not have that authority. >> reporter: consumer advocates say average americans have every reason to be outraged at wall street bankers. >> they live in their own world that is one reason they don't feel shame is that to them this seems perfectly reasonable. >> reporter: in dealing with these bankers, do they underst

and now let's go to chip reid at the white house. as we mentioned the white house seems to be downplaying these documents. why is that the case in your view? >> well, katie, they are trying to make it sound like this is really nothing new. they want the american people to understand that the white house was already aware of all of these problems including the pakistani intelligence service and civilian casualties. >> the president does not need to read a leaked document on the internet today to be shocked and horrified by unnecessary... and every civilian casualty is unnecessary. casualty of innocent life. >> they may be underestimating the problems here because, yes, people were aware and certainly if president was aware of the problem with civilian casualties but if we're now going to be bombarded for days on end with a long series of specific examples, that's going to make it more difficult for both the afghan people and the american people to support this war. >> couric: chip, did the administration try to stop the publication of

also, president obama campaigns for senate majority leader harry reid. after that, the national governors' association annual summer meeting. first, a look at how states are coping during the recession and how to reduce health care expenses. >> tomorrow, on c-span, the kansas senate republican debate. some of the topics are tax policy, arizonas emigration law, and how to prosecute suspected terrorists in a tribunal. also, tomorrow, president obama speaks at a fund-raiser for robin carnahan. also, congressman roy blunt talks with businessmen in this area but the economy and jobs. that is tomorrow here on c-span. >> for a snapshot of washington and the 111th congress, a reference guide to every member of the house and senate. order online at c-span.org /store. >> retired coast guard admiral thad allen said that bp will begin replacing the cap in the gulf of mexico so that more oil will be collected. he has given the company 24 hours to provide a timeline for replacing the containment cap on top of the well. he spoke with reporters in new orleans. >> we hop

so, in honor of then minority leader harry reid and now senate majority leader harry reid, nevada zone, i am honored to bring him out. [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much. before i begin my remarks, i want to recognize somebody that deserves a little recognition. first lieutenant dan choi. [applause] [applause] first lieutenant dan choi, graduate of the military academy at west point was discharged from the military this week. wrongfully so. dan is a perfect example of why we need to eliminate "don't ask don't tell". [applause] why we need to pass the unemployment discrimination act. i try to do both. we do have the "don't ask don't tell" in the defense authorization bill. so we are going to continue to work on this and do the very best we can because fairness deserves and i will do a rethink i can to make sure in the future there are less dan choi's in the world eliminated by a system that has no reason to humiliate anyone. [applause] i want everyone to stop and look back a little bit. in fact, look back a long ways. let's go back to the beginning of the united states as a co

i think reid's working very hard to paint her as this big-time extremist.ublicans should be talking about limited government and more individual responsibility and individual liberty. like that idea. that's the whole entire basis of our constitution. >> when you say "limited government" and sharon angell you mean taking a wrecking ball to most of it, including social security, medicare -- >> if you're talking about ponzi schemes, entitlement and corrupt departments, then yes. >> so social security's a ponzi scheme? >> a lot of people are not going to get money. you young people are not going to get money. >> the baby boomers i think should be able to get money. quite honestly i have more faith in myself dealing with finances than the government. we have a triple deficit and 9% unemployment. the government has not shown themselves to be responsible. >> larry: wouldn't you say social security is still popular in america? >> wildly popular. it's wildly, wildly popular. george bush discovered it too. it's wildly popular. medicare is wildly popular. i don't thin

>> well, thes after shoutout to harry reid. the senate majority leader is facing a tough reelection battle in nevada which has a large hispanic population. harry reid repeated after the president's speech today that's not likely to happen. it's a message to hispanic voters, especially i don't thinker hispanic voters who came out and voted for anymore 2008 in hope this is issue would have a pretty high priority. it's been sort of sidelined by other issues, including the economic issues, the stimulus package, financial regulations, health care reform, two wars. so it hasn't gotten the attention that advocates hoped it would. >> woodruff: he referred time and again today to the partisanship and the polarization on this issue. to what extent is that holding this back? >> that's the whole ball of wax. i mean, when george bush was president, george bush ii, he came very close to getting that passed and george bush, of course, was a republican, but he had a significant amount of republican support for that. that has melted away. john

. >>> major chuck reid says he will ask the city council to put the ballpark measure on the november ballot and he will do it without the blessing of major league baseball. a special committee is still investigating the option which includes a possible move to san jose. the giants say that would violate their territorial rights to the county. >>> coming up on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00, we'll have an update on the random crimes. plus, ford motor company reported profits. ironically, the turn around comes a little bit too late for some bay area dealers who recently closed up shop. thank you for watching, have a great weekend.

poll that came out and has harry reid leading by 7 points in nevada.hey are seen by a we will-respected pollster. they'll do a number of polls. and then there are real concerns here. there is a story going on at the moment. the liberal blog daily coast has been paying for a number of polls conducted by a firm called research 2000. well, now that blog thinks that these polling -- and by the way, every poll makes headlines. every poll leads some newspaper somewhere. the poll that -- rather, this company is now thought to have fabricated a number of their surveys. so that leads to obviously some mistaken conclusions. they've got some polls very seriously wrong and now they think they didn't conduct the polls in the first place. that's why everybody has to be more careful about polling than just saying have you seen the latest number? i'm ahead by 5 or behind by 5. it makes a large difference in who, what, how it was conducted. who the sample is. if i go out and survey a thousand self--identified democrats and say that president obama's approval rating is

but here locally -- age, i think you meant harry reid. caller: excuse me, harry reid. a charlie rangel is on the mind this morning. ok. yes, with harry reid. but here locally we have a congress man. he is against everything. he wants to decommission the nuclear power plants at indian point and his minions -- i don't know if he personally has come out against it, but his minions here, his environmentalists have come out against exploration for natural gas. here we have it. the democrats talk about natural gas and yet they will not allow exploration and drilling for it but the process called hydraulic fracturing here in bed shale belts where natural gas is plentiful, and they won't allow it to be explored for and drill the floor and brought to market. so again, we see that to face -- two-facedness illustrated by those two points. host: david mention charlie rangel. the reason why he was on his mind because it is the front page of many newspapers, that charlie rangel faces ethics charges. there is going to be a public hearing next week. back to energy legislation and davi

chuck reid asked them to back off the idea for a new stadium. san jose has until august 6 to put new initiatives on the ballot but they haven't said if they could move. reid said he would consider that request. >>> bay area students are going to get first-hand lessons in politics when they reach the nation's capital. before they left san jose today a rally was held for the 11 young people. one student said it's important to get the message out. >> i have a lot of friends who have friends that they just got deported, and they need the support. in fact, everythibody needs support. >>> belmont city council tonight may vote to keep any new massage parlors from opening, this after a report from the massage therapy council which found 37 of the 46 massage therapists in belmont may not be legitimate and ma by a front for sex workers. tonight's meeting begins at 7:30. >>> pot smoke is following a plan to follow a strict new smoking ban. they even decided to postpone the voting for two weeks. if adopted smoking would be banned inside all apartment comple

our political bloc with michael steele, sharron angle, and president obama fund raising with harry reid. ♪ . maybe my home, my only home, was where i was born in new york city, -- mexico city, and it is the house that i lived in for almost 20 years, and i can remember the address and phone number, and that is the only time in my life when i have felt at home, and now, in the united states, this country has given me opportunities that my country could not give me, but, still, i have the sense of i am an immigrant, and i feel like an immigrant 27 years after getting to the united states. i still feel like i am an immigrant. there is no home for me anymore. host: why did you become a citizen note? >> it was important for me to participate fully in this country. it is a wonderful country. this country would treat other immigrants like me, and the millions of immigrants who came up to me, it is truly amazing note, and i was born the year there was a book written, and with the wonderful ideas, of course, he was killed in 1963, but in 1965, with the immigration act, everything changed, and bec

i want to thank majority leader reid. i want to thank especially senator rockefeller in the entire senate for making this procedure and this process works flawlessly. for allowing west virginia to go to the process we have, they have been most gracious, and i truly want to give our thanks for that. the time has come to appoint someone to the senate who will look out for west virginia, who will work hard for west virginia and is a proud west virginian. i am now extremely proud to appoint cart they went to the united states senate. [applause] >> regardless of whoever occupies the seat now and in the future it will always be known as west virginia is united states senate seat that was occupied for nearly picketers are on, beloved senator robert c. byrd. however, i am truly confident that carte good when will look out for west virginians, and i know he will make us all proud. i have worked shoulder to shoulder with him for four years. i know a man. i know that west virginia is better off because he has passed this way. he has

mayor reid's decision to press ahead with the ballot measure is a change in stance. he had previously said he would wait for baseball officials to act. but time to put a measure on the november ballot is quickly running out. the deadline is next month. >>> a minor earthquake rattled parts of san francisco and the peninsula this afternoon. seismologists say the 3.2 quake hit at 2:29 p.m. just offshore from dalye city. the epicenter is in the same area as the big 1906 earthquake. no reports today of injuries or damage. >>> changes are coming to the bonfire policy at ocean beach. starting a week from sunday the golden gate national recreation area is enforcing an 11 p.m. curfew on beach fires. those fires are allowed only in the fire rings in certain areas of the beach and permits are required for groups larger than 25. the park service hopes the new curfew policy will reduce vandalism and public drunkenness. >>> it's an expensive piece of equipment that could help the san francisco police department crime lab test dna evidence more efficiently. so why hasn't it been us

the document is part of the james fraser reid collection.istorians say reid was one of the organizers of the doner party many of whom died during a trip from spring field, illinois to california back in 1846. >>> sports director mark ibanez joins us now. a great night for the giants down in la. >> any time you get a victory in la against the dodgers they are feeling good. it seems like just yesterday the giants kind of a group of aging veterans trying to rally around barry bonds for one last time of glory. now it is the sample of youth full talent for everything good. will farrel witnessed it. a big kid you can wear a hat like that. and young mr. posey two outs. a single makes it 1-0 san francisco. clutch two out hit from buster. pablo sandoval backs that up. he is really starting to hit as he needed to do after the all star game into the gap. left center-field with two outs. posey is running at the crack of the bat. in with the slide. 2-0 san francisco. and the beat goes on. in the 4th nate has the two run shot deep right the third of the y

chris: harry lloyd in nevada is not -- reid in nevada is not trashing his opponent but he's getting everybody else to do it. we asked ask can -- can republicans win congress in a wave election without proposing an agenda? the meter says, wow, they can. and this is rare. look at that number, ladies and gentlemen. 12-0, the meter writers, all-pros, believes the republicans don't have to show any cards. howard? >> the reason i say that, karl rove, the mastermind of republican politics told me the republicans definitely do need to put guard an agenda, which means to me they don't. chris: can you beat that? if rove says it it's wrong. >> i take that as sarcasm. chris: can they get away with nothing? >> i think they can. with the president's approval rating now down in the low 40's, with the white voters down in the mid 30's, with hispanics down 15 points over the course of the last six months, the economy as bad as it is, the b.p. spill. with all that, i think republicans can get away with running on nothing. they should just surf that wave. >> just ask how well democrats did in 2006 running witho

kevin reid manages a seafood restaurant where he has seen his business decline and the price of fish go up. >> everyone here thought it would never end. yes, we were quiet it -- we're quite excited. >> everyone here is a longing for live on the water to return to normal. but they also know that the caps on the leaking well are not yet complete. for now, they must watch and wait. >> the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says that the british government may want to explain to the american congress and the decision to release the bomber. it was part of an oil deal regarding bp. he reportedly only had a few months to live. >> here's the problem facing britain and america he is free and he is not yet dead. the scottish and government release him a year ago when his doctor said he had three months to live. but 11 months have gone by and he is still alive. he is the only man convicted of the bombing of pan am flight 103. 270 people were killed when it exploded over the town of lockerbie. for this crime, he was jailed for life. which is why his release last year ended so many in britai

the document is part of the james fraser reid collection. historians say reid was one of the organizers of the doner party many of whom died during a trip from spring field, illinois to california back in 1846. >>> sports director mark ibanez joins us now. a great night for the giants down in la. >> any time you get a victory in la against the dodgers they are feeling good. it seems like just yesterday the giants kind of a group of aging veterans trying to rally around barry bonds for one last time of glory. now it is the sample of youth full talent for everything good. will farrel witnessed it. a big kid you can wear a hat like that. and young mr. posey two outs. a single makes it 1-0 san francisco. clutch two out hit from buster. pablo sandoval backs that up. he is really starting to hit as he needed to do after the all star game into the gap. left center-field with two outs. posey is running at the crack of the bat. in with the slide. 2-0 san francisco. and the beat goes on. in the 4th nate has the two run shot deep right the third of the

mayor reid's decision to press ahead with the ballot measure is a change in stance. he had previously said he would wait for baseball officials to act. but time to put a measure on the november ballot is quickly running out. the deadline is next month. >>> a minor earthquake rattled parts of san francisco and the peninsula this afternoon. seismologists say the 3.2 quake hit at 2:29 p.m. just offshore from dalye city. the epicenter is in the same area as the big 1906 earthquake. no reports today of injuries or damage. >>> changes are coming to the bonfire policy at ocean beach. starting a week from sunday the golden gate national recreation area is enforcing an 11 p.m. curfew on beach fires. those fires are allowed only in the fire rings in certain areas of the beach and permits are required for groups larger than 25. the park service hopes the new curfew policy will reduce vandalism and public drunkenness. >>> it's an expensive piece of equipment that could help the san francisco police department crime lab test dna evidence more efficiently. so why hasn't it been us

. >> larry: nancy what do you make of harry reid being critical of the president?i -- well, i think in a way what it shows is all the democrat are also not single-minded. and in some ways maybe that's a good thing. i was going to say regarding the midterm elections that i think robert gibbs is keeping expectations low also. by the time we get to september, october, we might have a better feeling for what's going to happen. but i don't -- i think we might lose a few votes. but i don't think it's going to be as bad as a lot of people are categorizing. >> larry: how about the senate, dana, what do you read in there? >> in the senate? oh, gosh, that's going to be -- that's going to be tough. i would like to see us flip a couple more seats. i think harry reid's in danger. i happen to like sharron angle's very limit government. i think raemdeid's working hard paint her as this big-time extremist. republicans should be talking about limited government and more individual responsibility and individual liberty. like that idea. that's the whole entire basis of our constituti

. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator harry reid.applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. unlv. every time i come here, i have to tell everybody, my wife was a cheerleader here. [applause] it is an understatement to say thank you for being here today. this is a thrill for me, to be present at the university of nevada, las vegas. it is an understatement to say that nevada is being tested economically like never before, but we have to put nevadans to work in our economy back on track. we have a lot to fight ahead of us, but more importantly, we have a lot of fight left in us. [applause] and really, how we react to this crisis is about renewing our future and not repeating the past. there is one way to get out of this mess, being honest about what does it -- what got us into it. we have all watched very closely, or at least when we read the sports page we first get up in the morning, the lebron james situation. [laughter] i do not know much about those basketball teams, but i know about that he might have serve