richard? >> he woke up in the morning.re was an electrical cord around his wife's throat and he just didn't remember how that happened. then all of a sudden we come up with this defense, caffeine defense, which is very creative. anything that it alter someone's state of mind at the time a crime is allegedly committed, that gives a mitigation to the charges and does away with a murder conviction. it's sort of like a temporary insanity. but those cases win like less than 3% of the time, fred. it's a creative shot. it ain't going to fly in this case. >> i misspoke, i said stab. he allegedly tried to strangle his wife. all right, gentlemen. we're out of time on this one. avery, richard, we'll have you back and talk about lindsay lohan and what's going on with her. paris hilton, what's happening to her, too. she can't travel to japan anymore. what happened there? >> what are they going to do in japan? how are they going to survive. >> she had a public appearance, but not anymore. i don't know if the folks are going to be able t

richard?> on the senate democrat side, there are eight senators that disagree with president obama's plan at the moment. luke russert with the latest for us at the capital, thank you so much. >>> the last primaries before the midterms can give us a lot of insight into the political direction our country is headed. haltly contested primaries, seven states across the country today. the big storyline for you to watch, the tea party threatening the republican establishment. the closest races is in delaware where christine o'donnell has a chance to beat congressman mike castle. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell is live in wilmington, delaware, with the very latest for us. >> well, good morning, richard. fewer than 30,000 republicans are expected to vote in today's closed primary and what they decide could be pivotal in whether republicans have any control of retaking the senate november. it's that big of a deal. what's happening here is the typical kind of republican that has more

>> it's a very good question, richard.f you look at the democrats, you could charge them with legislative malpractice. they didn't do a budget at the beginning of the year and haven't done any of their spending bills and now not dealing with the uncertainty and tax code and making the democrat situation even worse. the fact of the matter is, you really should have dealt with this all year long because tax policy is an incredible role to play and democrats decided to punt on it and jobs are being hurt as a result and i think this hurts democrats in the election. >> john, let's stick with you on this. the gop is resting on the idea if you give tax cuts to the job creators, the rich, but keith olbermann had an interesting staton his show last night and i want to show this to you right here. just after the bill was sign under to law in 2001, unemployment rose to 4.6%. the next month 4.9% the month after and 5% and then 5.3 and it goes on and on. so, how might you defend something that does not appear to create jobs and increas

extra fees, richard.ases because they have to to make money. bottom line, richard, it's tough for airlines to have a positive bottom line and until the industry is truly profitable, you and i are going to pay the price and they'll find a way to make us do it. richard. >> that was a few extra seconds there, ali, which i will give you for the moment. but now, of course, it's time for the voice. and for that it's time for you and i to go head-to-head. the voice, the questions this week. >> welcome back, gentlemen. you've had a few weeks off from the quiz to get your heads together and to practice with your bells. plus, you two might be the most frequent fliers i know, so we'll start with a tough one. since 2002, how many non-charter commercial passenger airlines have filed for bankruptcy? a, 29, b 24, c 20 or d 17? richard, that was you. >> i'm going to say 17. >> richard, you are exactly right! 17 is the correct answer and you're on the board early. the most recent was mexicana airlines which suspended oper

richard s. i think a cut you off, and you were giving us a real perspective on the impact criminal history has on a person's life, and a one to give you back your time. >> i appreciate the legislation and the work that you do any work you are doing, but i think we have kind -- we do not realize how big a problem this has become. united states today, we are this global power. we are fighting wars that do not end. you all know this. and the war has come home. the war is in the streets. we have arrested millions of people for drugs. thank god i'm in california. show me some pot, you know? california is wonderful, but it is not that way in the rest of the country. they are still giving people felony convictions for possession of marijuana. you guys are really progressive. the rest of this country is not. the rest of this country is fighting a war that you cannot even protest. we are so far, even though barack is in the white house, isn't that great? the country is more right wing than you ever reali

msnbc political analyst richard wolffe is author of the book "renegade, making of the president" and he joins us from the white house. we should say, richard, the white house is denying this, but even if they aren't thinking about the ads, are they thinking about how the tea party works into their strategy for the fall midterms? >> reporter: well, it's hard for anyone not to think about these kind of things but the white housen sifts there is no truth behind the story, they are sticking to their strategy of pointing out the sharp differences on economic policy. remember, the president's doing this town hall, cnbc town hall, hater this morning, and what they want to point out is the other side has the set of policies tried before and failed, if they say, if the individual candidates in their races want to go out and point out these differences, about the tea party, about a republican party that's out of the mainstream, they're free to go ahead and do that, but that's not the message coming out of the white house for this election. >> so the message from a former president, i guess you

richard, tell me about sable. >> sab would love to sit in your lap, so if u're watching tv, you're sitting in your favorite chair, undoubtedly, she's going to jump on u, she's great with kids, so she's going to be great if you have kids. preferably older kids. >> i'm going to take sable, i like sable. >> sable's looking good to you. >> let's bring all the dogs out, jill, richard, thank you very much, keep our 100% record going. we are back with more on a >>> 8:56 is your time now. 76 degrees. it's going to feel like the middle of july today. more heat. when will we get relief. >> tom will have your forecast

who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire!hy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online. patty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪ [music] hello, i'm ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. today we'll be talking about homelessness and substance use disorder treatment. joining us in our panel today are dr. h. westley clark, director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland. richard cho, director of innovations and research, corp

chief master sergeant richard l. medal reflects the gratitude of an entire nation so we are also joined by vice president biden and members of congress, including congressman earl pomeroy and from chief etchberger's home state of pennsylvania, congressman tim holden. we are joined by leaders from across my administration including secretary of veterans affairs rick shin seccy, secretary of defense robert gates, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and leaders from across our armed services, including air force secretary michael donnelly and chief of staff general norton schwartz. i want to acknowledge a group of americans who understand the valor we recognize today because they displayed it it themselves, members of the medal of honor society. most of all, we welcome dick etchberger's friends and family, especially his brother robert and dick's three sons steve, richard, and cory. for the etchberger family, this is a day more than 40 years in the making. corey was just 9 years old, but he can still remember th

richard engel here with us in new york. thanks as always. >>> in iraq today, a grim reminder americans are still in grave danger there. today, a man dressed as an iraqi soldier fired on american troops on a training visit to an iraqi military base. two u.s. soldiers killed, at least nine others injures. they are the first u.s. service members to die since president obama declared the end of the combat operations phase. >>> in this country, a wind-driven wildfire covering 7,000 acres in the foothills outside boulder, colorado, has doubled in size just today, destroyed dozens of houses in its path. about 3,000 residents evacuated from their homes. by the way, some of the homes that were lost belonged to the firefighters that were trying to put the fire out. gusty winds grounded a lot of air tanker aircraft for much of the day today which, of course, hurt the firefighting effort. >>> tropical storm hermine is pounding texas with heavy rain tonight, though it's expected to lose power and weaken to a tropical depression during t

his name, air force chief master sergeant richard etchberger. richard etchberger.ake a break. we're not taking a break now, because we're going to get started. listen, this is fascinating. it makes one wonder about how often things like this happen as we watch and listen and things get underway. of course, handed this honor, his family, by the president. we will wait for the president to come up, but i wonder how often this happens, ladies and gentlemen? do you know? >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states. >> we don't, here the ceremony is about to begin. >>> if you're just joining us here on cnn we're waging a ceremony about to happen in the east room of the white house. i'm joined by cnn homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve. we're about to watch a hero get honored 42 years after he die and after he saved colleagues during vietnam. his name, air force chief master sergeant richard etchberger. his three sons are there. they're going to accept this honor on his behalf. 42 years after this death. the person said the president of th

richard?, and it's not reflected because which part of the grass roots are they channelling here? it -- clearly people want to talk about the economy and is it the deficit side, is it the tax cut you canf side? is it health care? the one new piece of this is actually the obama piece of this. it's repealing health care. they're going to run into a chainsaw on the deficit questions because technically, health care lowers the deficit. so, i -- i don't know which part of the tea party they want to channel here, other than the winning part. the motivation part. you don't want to mess with that. >> perry, what did we learn, potentially from this episode. watching this back and forth? the fact this could be done gone in a couple of days. we might not be talking about it as much. the campaigns might run away from it. but what did we learn about how the house republicans can govern, the leadership versus the rank and file? >> two things. one, we learned from watching boehner's answer to the question ab

richard, what other populations-are there youth or women affected by homelessness as well? absolutely, and with women in particular, there's both single women who are primarily using the set of homeless services that are tailored towards homeless single adults, as well as women with children. so many families are affected. and they face a number of challenges, both encounters with the criminal justice system but also encounters with the child welfare system, and where their substance use often is a complicating factor with regard to their ability to keep custody of their children. so that is another, i think, challenge that needs to be met. and, you know, it's almost like a very 360 circle. the women are homeless, the children go into foster care, then the children, when they leave foster care, then become homeless themselves. is that the case that you've seen, robert? yes, that's been the case. and, and in our model, one of the things, one of the major focuses that we have are, are being able to provide housing for a, a individual, but not necessarily the family, and that'

richard?ne of the other promising approaches around prevention is also to look at ways to structure housing services that can actually in reach into some of the institutions that discharge people into homelessness. i think there's a big push right now to do prevention in the community through the homeless rapid rehousing programs that hud is, is funding. but, in addition, i think there needs to be more of a focus on both institutions and programs where-that are serving people who then become homeless after discharge, including substance abuse treatment programs, hospitals, jails, and mental health institutions. very good. any thoughts? well, just the partnership that we at oxford house are starting to establish, and have established with the various justice agencies and social agencies, is, is paramount, and especially in, in providing the service of dealing with the homelessness, especially after treatment, because a lot of times people aren't aware, when they come out of, of jail or treatmen

richard taffle.applause] another silver sponsor that wears multiple hats is the chairman of the liberty education forum, mr. thomas wall. [applause] and mr. fred carter, he is actually running for president. he is an openly gay republican running for president. yes, it does happen. [applause] while we are working on ken's message, we will discuss why this is such a full room. who cannot remember or not forget the 2008 cycle? ok, this is where i stop everything. we will start every -- we will start over. no worries. this was a phone call right before the dinner. it is fine. >> welcome to the log cabin republican national dinner. this is ken mehlman. on behalf of every adult american to marry the person that they love,. they're keeping me in new york tonight. your support and advocacy for individual liberty of responsibility will help insure inclusion in the republican party. congratulations to the award winners this evening and to the endorsement of reginald. be sure to come to dallas tx for the log c

the greater picture, though, richard.aces that you mentioned, the gop really needs to win four of them if they really have any chance of taking back the senate. they need to pick up ten seats. of these four, they think they can pick up four of the five. >> five weeks to ago. everything is in play. everything is up in the air. we'll see how it goes. >> it's always in play until the end. >> luke russert. thank you. >> tonight a faceoff in the golden state. meanwhile meg whitman versus jerry brown. the candidate fls the race for california governor holding their first televised debate. the latest los angeles times usc poll shows u.s. candidate brown leading whitman 49% to 44%. >>> today as part of our education nation special we are focusing on a chicago school that seems to have found the formula formula for success. only half of hispanic and low-income students graduate from high school. >> i present to you the class of 2010. but at the chicago's urban prep academy, every student not only graduated, but was accepted to a f

richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement.s is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind of brings me to the point i want to say. this morning, we were in the courtroom, and we have lawyers, public defenders talking about legal cases, talking about the roles they play. what i think has been lost here, and maybe even this gentleman kind of raised it, is what happens to these defendants? what happens when they go back into the court, into the lock up after they have pled guilty

shown richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of the thirty six year old and the half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth in ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night of every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five. by works with the juvenile court it looks after young people who have broken the law and helps them make it through perrotte that will. take years to come to the rules so she had no. the need for brothers again can be seen on these walls but this poster is just one example the list of poor young african-americans who have been killed in ghettos like bayview is almost endless. by. the way. that these kids are they are paid and they all errors like animals and this herd is here is her to see this fact as you can facts here. and it's like i gotta go. you know. some of the kids are just scared you know and i just want to finish and they just want to be a part of it. and ac

richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement.s is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind of brings me to the point i want to say. this morning, we were in the courtroom, and we have lawyers, public defenders talking about legal cases, talking about the roles they play. what i think has been lost here, and maybe even this gentleman kind of raised it, is what happens to these defendants? what happens when they go back into the court, into the lock up after they have pled guilty? about 95% of them plead guilty. you know that they are being forced to plead guilty. you all know it. it is like there is a gun to their head. i call it the terror of arithmetic. they are being threatened with 100 years, 50 years, 20 years -- you know what that does to them. they go back to their jail cells. those numbers bounce around in there had. after a week or a month or six months or a year, a year-and-a- half, they plead guilty. and you know as public defenders, one of your main jobs is to make them plead guilty. and i kn

richard did it, but it was for yaf. until then it was a fledgling operation where things were kept on three by five cards and things are being mailed and eventually of course as it went along as yaf realized the need to make money for lots of people, taking what barry goldwater in '64 and expanded on that, there is one by the way, at one point i -- a fact i like to recount. people forget about and the vast impact it had bringing all of these donors into the movement is in 1960 when nixon ran for president he had 12,000 donors. 1964 when goldwater and he had over 1 million donors and that transformed the republican party. it meant that for the first time, the bankers of new york we not funding everything. but people were and it totally changed things. but i think even yaf had something to do with that. by the way, the have learned to do that, and of course it transcended to the cold water campaign. -- goldwater campaign. many cut their teeth on yaf. again as swain will tell us, that's probably the thing that made as much

i'm richard lui. the guns that cross state lines and were used in crimes last year were sold in just ten states, georgia, florida, virginia, texas, indiana, ohio, pennsylvania, north carolina, california, and arizona. now, there's a hearing today about the effort to remove wisconsin district attorney ken kratz from his post, under fire for sending racy text messages to five women. house majority leader steny hoyer not laughing about stephen colbert's testimony on friday. he called it an embarrassment and not appropriate. >>> tax cuts on hold, lawmakers will not vote to extend the bush era tax cuts until after the midterm elections. in an nbc news exclusive this morning, president obama insisted that those tax cuts be extended for everyone but the wealthiest americans. >> what we need is tax cuts for the middle class who are struggling and if they get a tax cut, they're likely to spend it, which means that a small business is potentially going to get a customer and we're going to see job growth. so we

reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. >> all right, thanks, richard. >>> a 61-year-old man is being held tonight at the loudoun county detention center, steven combs-lafleur. the woman died at the scene, and her husband is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond. >>> and a frederick man is dead after police were called to a domestic dispute on market street. police say that they were warned that the man had left the house with a rifle. when officers arrived, they say he fired a round, and they fired back. he died from gunshot wounds. police are now investigating whether he died from the fire of officers or from a self- inflicted gunshot wound. >>> a hostage situation in fairfax county is causing some major headaches. these are pictures just in to the abc7 news road. this is little river turnpike. a trucker got into an accident. another tanker was sent to the location to offload the fuel, and there is no word on when that road will reopen. >>> and we are tracking hurricane igor tonight as it is expected to make landfall in bermuda in a few hours. people are br

richard lui has been following this for us and, richard, you have new information for us. >> i'll drophat map a little bit later in the show to give people a sex of the context. we have been working the story and looking that sources and we look at all the information coming. what we just have learned from one law enforcement source, i want to stress that, there are claims that this individual has a bomb. this individual is claiming to have a bomb and, two, that this individual wants money and that the bomb squad is there, as well. let me just show you if i have a couple more seconds here what that context is. it started around 8:00 a.m. around this location. this is 9880 southwest 88 street and this is in kendall. now, what happened is he drove, supposedly after apprehending somebody two miles north, two miles and then what we have is the bank of america right here. across the street, we have the university of miami. and my writings not so good. you get a sense, very close, compact area here. starting at this moment, 8:00 a.m. driving two miles north and atm sitting at this location h

the man is named wade richards. and released a video this week in which he addresses his association with christine o'donnell. plus the whole you can be cured of being gay scam. >> in 1998, feeling guilt and shame about my same-sex attractions, i entered into an ex-gay residential reparative therapy ministry called love in action in memphis, tennessee. in 2000, after graduating from love in action i was in contact with christine o'donnell, the founder of the savior's alliance for lifting the truth. shortly after i became aware of christine o'donnell's radical beliefs when she entered me to peter labarbara for american for truth about homosexuality. they say they're fighting the gay agenda. in reality they have an agenda of their own. do you really want organizations like this promoting, funding and endorsing candidates to sit on the united states congress? i think not. in the late summer of 2000, after being completely worn down by becoming the ex-gay political poster puppet for these organizations and still struggl

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richard besser. >> reporter: they're all over youtube. videos that show teens engaging in what's called robotripping, or dexing. millions of teens are known to be abusing dxm, the active ingredient in many over the counter medicines. >> we have young people who are choosing to abuse medicines. that's the issue we've got to go after. >> reporter: for some, it's a cheap way to get high. in large doses, the drug can cause the sensation of being drunk. but there can be real consequences. dxm can be a gateway to other drugs. can cause changes in drigs, difficulty breathing a phat heartbeat. and in rare instances, death. last year, more than 8,000 people, mostly teens, were sent to the emergency room. james hunt has been using dxm to get high since he us was 17. >> you don't think about drugs being on the counter at walmart. you just walk in anywhere, like, in any city in the country, and get drugs. >> reporter: still, today, an fda advisory committee voted to keep the cough medicines available without a description, in keeping with the industr

but now, both of you have just said, "no, no, no, richard holbrooke is working through the secretary of state." and so the parties in the field might say, "well, why isn't, ah, why isn't hillary clinton here dealing with this and why am i not talking to the president of the united states?" is that a contradiction or you don't see it that way? michael? >> well, i, i don't think they say that to ambassador holbrooke's face. >> probably not. >> look, i don't think so. i think, um, i mean, afghanistan and pakistan is such an enormous proem that there are a lot of big, ah, characters involved. it's not just the president and the secretary of state and ambassador holbrooke. it's general petraeus. it's general mcchrystal. it's ambassador eikenberry. there's a lot of figures involved. there's more then enough room for all of them. i think, it would be unwise if, um, if ambassador holbrooke were not bringing secretary clinton in on the loop, and every indication is he is. >> charlie. >> yeah, i can't, ah, ambassador holbrooke is a fascinating figure and i need to say right away that ambassado