>> what are you doing with the rope, richard?ing to be a noose around my wife's neck here. >> now why you want to do that richard? >> well, because i giet contraption that she's going to sit on this platform i have that has aremote control. 6 >> he would calm down sometimes for a while, but they were just temporary calming periods, waiting for something else to happen. >> by 1:00 in the afternoon, in another act of shocking bravado, he called a local newspaper reporter, karen florin. >> wow, this guy's got his wife at gunpoint and he's threatening to blow up the house. what made you call me? >> i trust you. >> one of florin's colleagues at "the day" newspaper began videotaping their conversation, one of four they would have that day. >> i don't want to take innocent peoples' lives. >> well, then why are you, why do you have your wife there? ex-wife. >> because she's got her head on my shoulder and i've waited three years for that. and this is worth it. >> i'm trying to imagine, he wants you to put your head on his shoulder. is it

richards had a second vehicle blown out from beneath him just weeks after the first. >> ben richards:n, we all walked out with all of our parts and pieces. >> martin: richards had no visible wound, but he had suffered an injury that would end his army career and very nearly ruin his life. >> farrah richards: he spent a lot of time by himself in closed rooms. >> martin: farrah richards could see her husband was a changed man when he came home, but couldn't see why. >> farrah richards: as a spouse, i wasn't thinking "he has traumatic brain injury." that wasn't even something that i really knew about. >> martin: doctors at ft. lewis, washington, told richards he was simply suffering from post- traumatic stress, a diagnosis that would hang over him for four years. >> ben richards: if you have post-traumatic stress disorder and you... you are not improving through counseling, then it's your fault. >> martin: you're not trying hard enough? >> ben richards: it was my fault that i wasn't getting better. >> martin: not willing to give up on a promising young officer, the army promoted richards

richard nixon inherits the war. how are presidents kept from being a snake pit? >> a full pardon for richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. >> that cost jury for the presidency. richard nixon rises from the political brains, it declares the war is coming to an end, he ends the draft, nixon, the ultimate anti-communists crusader, goes to communist china. it is clear despite all the noise and hell raising, nixon will be elected for a second term. his domestic policy, what is it about his personality that allows him to sabotage his presidency in watergate? >> i have a psychiatrist and i do not play one on tv. there are a million books and everyone has their own interpretation. this is a guy that got himself and stared. in some ways, a lot of other presidents would do the same things. he talked about the use of the irs by other presidents, the wiretaps of martin luther king by the kennedy administration come on by the power of the fbi. hemay have done more, but did it in a situation where there were paranoia about leaks. he was also doing it in an

. >>> good morning, i'm richard lui. london police now say wednesday's brutal attack of a british soldier on the street was a terrorist attack. nbc news has obtained video of the attack, and the material is graphic. here you see one suspect. investigators say they ambushed and killed the soldier with machetes in broad daylight. they went on to rant about islam shouting at bystanders and calling them extremists. the incident is raising questions in the uk and here at home about security in the face of a new kind of terror attack. nbc's annabel roberts is at the scene of the attack in london. she filed this report earlier. >> reporter: good morning, richard. the two suspects spent the night in the hospital under armed guard. and really the big question facing the security services this morning is whether or not they were acting alone. british prime minister david cameron is hosting this morning a meeting of a committee called c.o.b.r.a. which is designed to deal with attacks, terrorist attacks, in his country, and emergenc

he said richard nixon. well. and then i listened to the words that became much more moving in this sad occasion of the passing of richard nixon when clinton gave the eulogy that brought tears to my eyes and most americans because in that you megaera those comments bill clinton moments ofs we all transcend division, partisanship and sometimes even in the word that my boys are not allowed to say but the hate to word and in the '60s it was used by a lot of people including me about people who disagreed and through the '70s and '80s and '90s it became a very common word. i hope to after the bloodletting from the clinton years that we would be over that. and a very good friend of mine that i was in college with between law school something about the new haven drinking water. one of my close friends before i went to yale law school and met somebody named hillary rodham when that was her last name i was close friends with somebody named george bush who i voted for for president not president but of might richard a. [lau

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we start with richard seymour, the author of the four nonfiction books including american insurgents and "unhitched" discussing his belief in communism, his resignation from the socialist workers party and his issues with the political arguments of the late christopher hitchens. this half hour interview starts right now. >> now joining us on book tv in london is author richard seymour. mr. seymour, before we start talking about some of your books, introduce yourself to the audience. tell us about yourself. >> guest: i am a ph.d. student at the london school of economics, so that's what i spend most of my time doing degette i do some writing on the side. i write for the guardian newspaper. i've written a few books on a blog as well. >> host: what is the blog called? the tomb. it is on ideas and it is rescuing from 20th century communism if you like. that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. and it's just basically for the left wing politics. >> host: are you a communist? >> guest: i would describe myself as a socialist because i don't want to be experienced with stalin and dict

richard engel. thank you, richard. [applause] >> i am truly without words. that was too much. we are focusing not on me. i am very lucky i am still here. we are talking about the people who are on this list and thinking about their lives and what they did and why they did it. good morning. it is an honor to be here today. this is a somber task but one that is dearly important to me. our little tribe that goes through the war zones is getting smaller. we are being killed off. like correspondents like marie colvin who are no longer with us. she was smart and funny and good at what she did. i remember her from everywhere. while it may seem there are many foreign correspondent running around the world bringing the news, there are not. the ones that last and stick it out are a small group. i remember marie as tripoli was falling and gaddafi was on the run and the city was not functioning. we found a hotel in the center of tripoli. it was an old arab mansion with a courtyard next to a famous statue. we decided to rent out the entire thing. there were shortages. phones and network. t

>> next richard haass argues that for the u.s. to retain its primacy in the 21st century it must reduce its involvement in foreign interventions both military and humanitarhumanitar ian and focus instead on restoring its own economic health. this is a little over an hour. >> i am very honored to be here with my friend richard haas and i am here for a couple of reasons. the first is that richard and i go really far back. i don't want to tell you how far back that we met when we were 21 years old and you can do the math. i have been richard's friend and followed his thinking agreeing with some and disagreeidisagreei ng with some of the years but he has been my friend. i'm here because i was very excited about this book "foreign policy begins at home" from the very moment i heard the title and from the first comer station i had with richard about it. richard and i were colleagues together at the brookings institution and the first question i'm going to ask of you is given this title why don't you merge it with the brookings instituti

richard? >> tracie potts in washington, thank you. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel says cyber threats are very real and dangerous. that's why cybersecurity will take top billing this weekend when he meets with members of a chinese delegation. hagel is calling for, quote, rules of the road to prevent conflict on global networks on reports that china used computer-based attacks to access data from pentagon weapons programs. hagel says sub cybersecurity wie a topic for next week's meeting. >>> the winter olympics next february have now olympic-sized reports of corruption to deal with. a former russian deputy prime minister-turned kremlin critic claims $30 billion were stolen from the games. the accused are businessmen and officials close to president vladimir putin. the alleged corruption and cost overruns have quadrupled the games' cost estimate to a total of $50 billion now. the head of the russian olympic committee says he's confident russian prosecutors and auditors are keeping an eye on co

it's not everything, richard. and when i think about the solutions you are suggesting, i keep coming back to our congress. i haven't read your book gets i don't know what you say about them, but i'm just so distraught about the state of our political system, particularly and the congress the way it's chosen, the fact that people have to spend all their time raising money rather than thinking about the country's problems. is there anyway to fix that? >> i write about congressional dysfunctionality which is part of, look, i think there are problems with the money operates internet in politics. people spend way too much time doing it. i think the situation is going to get worse not better. i think narrowcasting of me has made it more difficult it everybody now can find his own cable or internet site or whatever. so we have an almost proliferation of many constituencies that makes it much harder to build community. political parties have gotten a much weaker, much less significant. so there's that. there's some things

richard? >> danielle, thank you so much. >>> a military sex abuse response chief has been arrested after a domestic dispute. the fort campbell lieutenant was removed from supervising the base's sex assault program after violating an order of protection and stalking of his wife. his ex-wife. he and his ex-wife, by the way, both have orders of protection against each other. >>> meanwhile, president obama summoning top pentagon leaders to the white house thursday. he called sexual assault cases shameful and disgraceful and a danger to national security. now a bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing major changes to the way the many i will tear handles those cases. >> when any single victim of sexual assault is forced to salute her attacker, clearly our system is broken. >> sexual violence is illegal and completely unacceptable, and yet appears to be continuing unabated. >> the bill would prevent military commanders from handling cases of subordinates. it would also outlaw them from set ago sid

. >> good morning to you, i'm richard lui. as another day breaks in moore, oklahoma, residents continue the massive job of cleaning up after monday's devastating tornado. meteorologists with the national weather service now categorize that twister as an ef-5, the highest level, saying it packed winds of more than 200 miles per hour. this morning the medical examiner says 24 people were killed in that storm including 9 children with more than 230 injured. early on officials put the death toll higher, saying confusion on the ground led to a miscount. local hospitals are treating people for minor cuts and bruises to more serious injuries like broken bones. officials are now in the early stages of assessing the damage and trying to figure out if any parts of the city are salvageable. president obama has pledged the full resources of the federal government towards recovery zig designating parts of the state as disaster areas opening up funds for those affected by the storm. >> the people of moore should know that their country will

i'm richard lui. powerful storms just tore through the nation's heartland overnight and at least one fatality. oklahoma was one of the hardest hit where a state of emergency has been declared. more now from nbc's jay gray in oklahoma city. >> reporter: violent weather ripped across much of the midwest over the weekend. storms lining up and lighting up the radar. spawning dozens of tornadoes. the most vicious hit sunday was in shawnee, oklahoma. where a twister splintered this neighborhood several blocks, completely wiped away. the trail of debris stretches across several states now. homes and businesses ripped apart. >> no sooner had we gotten in the basement than we saw heavy wind and heavy rain and after it subsided, we came out and saw that we sustained quite a bit of damage. >> reporter: snapped power lines and stripped trees just outside of oklahoma city two 18-wheelers were pushed on their sides. one left dangling along the railing of an overpass. >> a bunch of dust, stuff flying around. it was

it was huge for richard. it was very, very intense for richard.cted him to be some sort of leader and by default he was. it was his work and comedy that led really and spoke to the truth to people. >> i think you helped to capture this. when i sigh big comedians and actors today. it's hard to be impressed because i knew someone prior to them. pun intended. thank you for your time tonight. congratulations on the film. >> thank you. >> richard pryor omit the logic appears tonight on show time. >>> party in reverse. jackie robinson and james brown. it's time to ask rev, next. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. i asked my husband to pay our bill, and he forgot. you have the it card and it's your first time missing a payment, so there's no late fee. really? yep! is your husband off the hook? no. h

that's a weak speaker. >> richard, thank you. i will fold my cards right now. done. >> you know, it's a conversation. i'll just say, josh, rachel maddow did a great piece pointing out what bob dole supported. the clean water act, the endang irspecies act, violence against women's act, to say that now as a republican running for the highest office in the land would get you cut off at the knees, i think. >> well, yeah, and i think the republican party has put more and more of a premium on ideological purity over the last few years. it's unclear when they will figure out this is electoral poison for them. i think partly it's the house map. they can underperform quite a bit and still hold on to the house. if that's what it would take to get the message through that they don't have an agenda that they can sell to the majority of america, losing to the house. i think that will take toward the end of the deck kay for that to happen. but bob dole came up at a time when republicans did not win a majority in the house of representatives for 40 years. so they understood t

richard is now the chief correspondent for nbc news. his face has become indelibly associated with 100,000 american viewers with coverage of the iraq war.-- by hundreds of thousands of american viewers with coverage of the iraq war. with the arab spring and the tumultuous scenes in egypt, libya, and syria. he has 17 news and documentary emmys and is the winner of a special citation for his personal video diary of the iraq war. even these laurels do not get the full story of the self-made correspondent me see today. he is surely one for the history books. winston churchill said history would be kind to him. he intended to write it. richard did the same. not that he needed any action kindness.-- any extra kindness. he wrote his first book about his life before and after the iraq war. the book drew praise from chris matthews of msnbc, saying "this evenemingway country." more remarkable is his own story. he struggled with dyslexia. he went to stanford and then in a burst of intuition he decided to become a foreign correspondent ov cro he se

good morning. >> good morning, richard.h shares of facebook, the social networking giant said mobile ads help propel a big jump in revenue. facebook has more than 1.1 billion monthly active users. the number of people who logon solely with a mobile device has doubled. >>> and ford puts out the help wanted sign. the automaker at its plant in kansas city to help meet surging demands for pickup trucks. >>> and now you can watch your pizza being made from anywhere. dominos is testing a live webcam for customers to check on their order from start to finish. >> you have to have a lot of talent to watch for that. >>> retail sales can turn around a rough start to may. the feds keep interest rates at record lows to boost the economy but that did not keep stocks from tumbling. new this morning, australia is about to place an order for up to 100 lockheed martin f-35 stealth fighter jets and a dozens attack planes. gallup poll said workers not engaged in their job. 18% call themselves actively disengaged while 52% are not engaged at al

richard, back to you. >> yeah, how much is that per word? thank you so much. >>> also in business, a transatlantic divide is growing over a building and safe accord for garment workers in bangladesh. a few major u.s. retailers declined to endorse the new measures, but two of europe's biggest fashion chains are pushing for greater safety after a major building collapse claimed over 1100 lives. >>> kobe bryant's attorneys head to court today to try to win back the rights to basketball memorabilia that is scheduled to be auctioned off. kobe's mom, pamela bryant, provided the 900 items appraised at $1.5 million. >>> amtrak unveiling their newest electric locomotives built in california at a cost of about $466 million. the 70 new engines are headed for the northeast corridor to be used there. >>> skechers will be paying out $40 million to consumers who bought toning shoes under the mistaken belief the shoes would help them lose weight and strengthen muscle. a federal judge approved the class action settlement that covers more than 520,000 claims.

we will take you to jfk and talk to the ceo, richard anderson along with richard branson. >> ag lafleyng as chairman and ceo. the change has come as some investors have pushed for fast improvements from the household products maker. they unveiled the $10 billion restructuring program last february. the stock was up 54% and underperformed the s&p and many of the company's consumer product competitors during lafley's ten-year ceo p & g shares fell 37% and the company outperformed its peers during that period. a lot of comparisons to jobs and schultz coming back to starbucks. whether or not making the old new again is a wise move. >> a lot of times people are so eager to get rid of the ceo and we just went through this to some extent with jamie dimon over at j.p. morgan. you want someone to blame then bring a new person that did not bring the company around and it's not a magic pill and the guy that was in charge. >> do we know if bill ackman was behind this? you're positioning, like he would. he was dissatisfied with the incumbent ceo. it's hard to believe that he wasn't part of the pres

richard besser. ( cheers and applause ). hey, richard. good to see you again. okay. now as i said, you're abc news chief health and medical correspondent. and you've got a new book here called "tell me the truth, doctor: easy to understand answers to your most confusing and critical health questions." what are the most confusing health questions out there? >> a lot of the questions people have are around diet and exercise. >> stephen: should i diet or exercise? >> actually you need to do some of both. >> stephen: mmmmm. if you want to lose weight, diet is the most important thing. >> stephen: beautiful. but if you want to build a healthy heart and healthy bones, there's where exercise is really critical. >> stephen: do i have to though because i'm a 40 (mumbling) man and can't i just take a testosterone supplement because i see all kinds of ads on, i'm guessing also, abc news that tell me that i've got low-t and i should rub oils on my body. and then i'll be all manly. >> one of the things that a lot of people don't realize is drugs need to go through testing and app

we start with richard, the author of four nonfiction books including american insurgents in "unhitched" discussing communism, resignation from the party, and discussions of the arguments of the late christopher hitchens. this half hour interview startings -- starts now. >> host: now joining us on booktv in london is author richard seymour. introduce yourself to the audience. >> guest: okay, well, i'm a p had -- ph.d. student, i write for the guardian newspaper, wrote a few books and blog as well. >> host: what's the blog called? >> lenon's tomb. >> host: why? >> guest: what's worth rescuing from the 20th century communism, if you like. that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. it's just generally for left wing politics. >> host: are you a communist? >> i would describe myself as a socialist because i don't want to be associated with the stalin and dictatorships erected in the name of communism. i don't call myself a communist. >> host: what about a marxist? >> guest: yes, very much so. >> host: why? >> guest: i consider it a superior way of explaning societies in the way they wo

not simply richard nixon. frankly my sense is the person who might've done it is the one deniable person in the nixon entourage in that speech be reposted because it went to florida. what was it doing in florida? there's no evidence. i never saw any. whatever evidence i saw a nature was available and there's nothing more. >> question on the left. >> my name is bradford era. i'm not going to ask you about conspiracies. probably safe to say american state and government than 50 years ago and things have happened in that period the vietnam war, iraq war, 9/11, katrina, et cetera. how much of that loss of faith in government do you ascribe to watergate? >> in vietnam. >> in the assassination. first of all, the credibility gap to civil conflict not of the nixon administration, but the johnson administration. we have a man named robert mcnamara to thank for that. you had this white house briefings -- pentagon briefing and people like other fine journalists on the ground and that is not going that way. i'm not saying

i'm richard liu. thanks for watching "early . . >>> i had to hold on to the wall to keep myself safe, because i don't want to fly away in the tornado. >> simply doing whatever they can to survive. new video coming into our newsroom of the massive tornado that ripped through oklahoma. you can see right there, it looks like a rainbow. that is a tornado behind that causing destruction. >> here is a look at the devastation left behind. entire neighborhoods in the town were leveled. crews working through the night hoping to find survivors in that rubble. >> it has been so very, very hard to watch. it is 4:30. good morning. i'm jon kelley. >>> i'm laura garcia-cannon.

richard?> one of the differences between the united states and britain is britain has an act that journalists are held liable under the law. we don't. it's government officials who sign an oath not to disclose classified information and it seems to me to be going after the wrong parties. rather than going after the journalist you ought to go after people in government who signed a pledge not to disclose. >> great point. kelly? >> one of the things that strikes me about this is there more to come? anybody who covers national security must be thinking were my phone records also taken? have they been looking at me? when we hear the officials tell us they learn about these important events through news reports there is sort of a chilling effect on news and so you have the president saying, oh, i learned about this through news reports and lois lerner saying i learned about this through news reports. a circle here you don't want to put a chill on news coverage. it's ironic. >> it is. >> we have to

richard. >> tracy pots. thank you so much. >>> george zimmerman's trial is less than three weeks away. there is new evidence from trayson martin's cellphone with what appear to be marine plants and this gun, it is not clear who was olding it, teches with a friend about fighting and forced to move out of his mother's house because of fighting at school a. statement from martin's family says, the only photos irrelevant or admissible at trial are those of trayson taken the day he shot and killed zimmerman. zimmerman has pleaded not guilty. that ignited racial tensions around the country. we should mention that george victimerman sued for his allegations. >>> the judge gave a heavy sigh, dismissing the jury, then declaring a mistrial in the penalty phase. the same jury that convicted her earlier this month could not decide whether arias should receive life behind bars or the death penalty. they were deadlocked after 13 hours of deliberations spanning three days. the penalty phase retrial is scheduled july 18th.

plant manager leslie richards.build cars with greater accuracy than ever before because of the new tooling and the robots. it isn't possible to operate a plant this size without our material-management computer systems. 9,500 different part numbers are kept track of here daily. gm's orion plant is state of the art, at least for now. cleaner and brighter, it's a better place to work, even if it's where fewer humans are needed. but is it profiting? gm hopes for a 15-20% rate of return on its plants. it usually takes at least 12 months before you're running at full speed and running everything to maximum efficiency. gm is probably close at winsfield and lake orion to achieving those returns. financially, is it starting to pay off? yes, the time it takes to build a car in that new plant is less than in our old plant. our bet that we could become more productive is paying off. many felt gm had to build plants like orion. it was modernize or be run over by the auto business of the 1980s. how does gm, or any business, dec

i'm richard lui. >>> president obama is taking his push for immigration reform to mexico. here at home he says don't count him out on gun control and fixing the budget. all this as the president used his 100th day in office to define his stance on syrian intervention and guantanamo bay. let's go to nbc's traci potts who is live in washington with all the details. good morning. >> reporter: richard, the president on those issues that you noted, unable to stop the big budget cuts, unable to push through gun control, but he did say don't count me out. >> despite that, i'm actually confident there are a range of things we can get done. >> reporter: like immigration reform. >> that's going to be an historic achievement. >> reporter: analysts think it can. >> the reason he can get it done is republicans don't dare turn those hispanic voters down. >> reporter: not so optimistic on the budget. meat inspectors and air traffic controllers got a pass, but the president says -- >> well, that's not a solution. >>

kopitar sends it across and skips through richards. richards playing the left point. doughty the right point. kopitar and brown up front. l.a. gets a little sloppy there and cleared back down behind jonathan quick. look out! a giveaway! score! alex steen! shorthanded! l.a. failed to keep it in on their power play on a routine play behind the net turns anything but routine. mishandled by quick. steen scores shorthanded. and the st. louis blues accomplish something they haven't been able to do for a long time. that's beat los angeles. jonathan quick is going to see that play in his sleep. second of the game. won on the power play. won shorthanded. and boy, l.a. had all the momentum. still had plenty of time on a double minor power play and the guy that brian engblom said earlier was the best player on the ice most of the night, steen, with both goals. they're going to announce the three stars of the game here. at scottrade center. i have a feeling one of those stars is the player that brian is waiting to interview patiently down at ice level. an unassisted shorthanded g

we are deeply saddened to learn about richard's death. he was a very inspiring man who in a very short time walked his way into many lives. our thoughts are with his family." richard was dribbling one of the soccer balls that the company sends to the developing countries. what making the soccer balls so special, they're very durable. they don't need a pump to be inflated. reporting live here in berkeley. "today in the bay." >>> making new moves to try and boost the sports popularity and keep it in the olympics. >>> and well tell you why the bay area tesla is banned from opening up in showrooms in some states. >>> and the inability of speaking out. we'll take a look. >>> welcome back, everybody. three men will soon go to trial in new jersey, accused of trying to sell investors fake facebook stock. a federal prosecutor is charging the three men with wire fraud, conspiracy, last year, the men allegedly offered people a chance to buy facebook stock just as the company was about to go public. prosecutors say they swindled potential investors o

named richard. she has never called me anything but mr. smiley. >> a conversation with ethan hawke, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had. he said, there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ethan hawke has starred in movies such as training day which he earned an oscar nomination. whatever else he accomplishes, he will probably be remembered in part for the character of jesse that as part of a deeply romantic couple that moviegoers have followed for almost two decades. first, before sunrise, than before sunset. and now, before midnight. >> i knew that i might stumble on a few things that somebody over low. >> you did uncover information that the cops had overlooked. >> th

richard, you spoke to college graduates?a commencement speech at ccf, i had them all do the harlem shake. >> no you didn't. >> yeah, there they are. all 500 plus students. >> they did it? >> the parents in the stand were like what's going on here? >> the harlem what? >> are you taking this video? >> i am. >> i take exception to the fact that you told them do it but that you didn't do it. >> after doing the harlem shake what advice did you give them? >> that's the way life s a big dance party. >> no better time to dance than when you're graduating from college. >> celebrate. >> and i have a story of some strange bedfellows. in oklahoma, fun, happy news out of oklahoma. a 500-pound lion named bone digger, an 11-pound dog have been best friends since they were four weeks old. bone digger, the lion, is mildly disabled. >> he can't bite? >> maybe that has something to do with the friendship. they do everything together. eat together, sleep together, and other dogs live in the enclosu enclosure. >> that friendship could end poorly

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the fun thing about working with richard is he doesn't care if it works. nobody is going to care, nothing is happening. we should call of woody allen and somebody needs to write some jokes. her, i am interested in you. if somebody can't sit and be humanou and see a real being, this is not for them. theses the truth of movies. the only three people that wanted the first movie to be made our rec, julie, and i. the time, because of benefits of home video, we are the lowest grossing trilogy of all time. our joke is that everybody that love the first two went to of the third one, it would be a physical failure. we do these things because we care about them, and over time, we found like-minded people. amazed at the response. tavis: that is why i started with that. this has caught on, people beyond the three of you interested to see how these things turn out. aboutoes that say to you the moviegoer? give me a profile or some words about what it says about the moviegoer interested in this trilogy? people oute a lot of there that don't want to be talked down to and

>> is this richard? >> yes. >> how long has the 6-year-old been missing?> minutes. >> was the flying saucer in the backyard? >> yes. >> could a boy be inside this balloon-like object? more than 1,000 feet off the ground. >> this thing takes off, your kid tells you falcon's inside. are you really going to stop and try to justify and find reasons why maybe he's not in? >> within a few short minutes, the story sparks a media storm and the balloon boy goes global. >> i had no clue that there was even media outside. mayumi and i were dumbfounded, baffled why this thing got attention and people were in our front yards. we simply wanted it to go away. >> the country watches live wanting to know the fate of the boy supposedly inside the runaway aircraft. after more than an hour in flight and covering 50 miles across three counties, it crashes softly to the ground. the sheriff's department rushes to the saucer but finds no one inside. rescue crews continue searching for the missing boy. but shortly after the balloon lands, the word comes in the heene boy had been f

all of those were responsibilities in part that richard holbrooke had to do that. you know that there have been much discussion about his relationship with karzai. you know, according to the book "little america" karzai told his aides that he did not trust holbrook and didn't want to see him again. his aides conveyed that message to officials at the u.s. embassy. this occurred in the middle of the debate over after pack policy. smoo >> yes, karzai could say that because he knew phenomenon they had his back. karzai would not have dared whether he liked what holbrook told him or not to pick on holbrook if he hadn't got ample signals from the white house that he's expendable. before holbrook took on karzai, vice pside biden sa the very same things to karzai and walked out of a dinner, just got up in the middle of dinner and walked out. karzai would not countenance sending a similar message about vice president biden to the -- to the embassy. so partly, you know, holbrooke had a tough job of getting the afghan government to behave. the afghan government very early on u

the stories of the atrocities there are tough to cover as richard engel knows first hand. he and his crew were kidnapped in december but thankfully made it out okay. they are back to investigate allegations of chemical warfare. >> reporter: rebels bring us into syria, laid waste by more than two years of war and constant brutality. we're taken to a headquarters bombed just days earlier to discuss allegations of chemical weapons. a young activist shows us video he says is the aftermath of an attack. villagers choking, gasping. among them this woman slipping in and out of consciousness. rebels blame chemical weapons, smoke from something dropped by a government helicopter. they show us two photographs, but experts tell us these devices closely resemble tear gas canisters. a doctor tells us he treated the woman. she was unconscious, sweating he says. she had white liquid at the mouth. she was struggling to breathe and had small pupils. we're shown blood and urine samples doctors say they collected from her. evidence of a chemical attack the rebels say but it proves nothing. a

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the thing about richard is everyone loves him.one of t highest employee approval ratings in the free world. his 60's mentality, austin powers. he started virgin and went to jail two times because he was competing with the national airline. all that stuff. he is no stranger to controversy the funny thing is, one of the very few times that his employees and actually counted back. dennis: are moving on. the rising price of cocktails and spirits. have you noticed this? of the last six months the average price of these drinks rose four and a half to 11 percent at restaurants and surprisingly prices went up most at less expensive restaurants. have you noticed any difference? >> okay. >> it's funny. i live in new york. a $20 cocktail does not shock us. what you are seeing is that the price is going up the drinks and getting smaller. the debt storable days ago that showed a 16 oz point is not actually applied. i'm surprised they're going up. everything else is. someone said to my bed it apies to alllin all this and that became a story. de

the silver fox, richard fisher.hat's barbara bush. >> that's right. and i think about how to start with you to get right to it. you've been against a lot of the kaopld tkaeugz for a long time. so instead of asking you when you think she should taper do you think the fed is closer to thinking they should taper. >> the chairman is good about listen to go everybody else. there's 19 of us. we are having a debate. that's pretty clear. >> yeah. >> we'll see his principal concern is the efficacy of what we do. is it working. and does it continue to work. we keep evaluating the cost benefit analysis. but even i, joe, i'm not saying cut it off. i lost that argument a long time ago. as i said many times, the biggest consumer of wild turkey bourbon in america, we don't want to go from wild turkey to cold turkey overnight. do we dial it up, dial it back? that's the nature of the discussion. he's effective and good listener. >> we think it works now. >> he doesn't dictate. he license to the committee. >> the current thinking, wh

richard and michael will be with me after the break. remormon moves.ld this be great news for the tea party? that's next. >> john: the thing of the day is today's by golly you betcha, the great state of minnesota which sent bob dylan to new york and michelle bachmann to congress will be sending gays to the altar as they become the 12th state in america oh that allows gays to marry. well done. >>> now, this ought to get those "don't tread on me" flags waving. a widening internal investigation that has di covered that the irs targeted tax exempt status of non-profit groups that not only had tea party or operator in their name but also ones that voiced concern about government spending debt, and taxes or constitutional education. miller however was the only named interim commissioner last november following the resignation of bush-appointee doug shulman who headed the organization during these alleged practices. >> if you've got the irs operating in anything less than a neutral nonpartisan way then that's outrageous, and it's contrary to our traditions, a

i'm richard lui. you're watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station >>> leading the news in "the new york times," a homemade style of terror jihadist push new tactics. al qaeda prop gandists have called for smaller attacks and online education to teach them how. >>> and in "politico," holding noses, insurers start selling obamacare so health insurers are now planning campaigns to pursue the skeptical public to sign up and get covered by the health care reform law. >>> now to our top stories. a recap. right now no cemetery in massachusetts will bury the body of accused bomber tamerlan tsarnaev. his uncle arrived yesterday to arrange a burial and says he understands that "no one wants to associate their names with such evil events." tamerlan died after a shootout with police in april. his younger brother, dzhokhar, is in police custody. we continue to watch that story. >>> former congresswoman gabrielle giffords is the winner of the john f. kennedy profile in courag

but the facility also houses richard ramirez, better known as the night stalker, and richard allen davis, polly klaas' killer. the prison is more than 150 years old. the walls are crumbling. and the institution is outdated, contributing to an overwhelming increase in both the number and severity of brutal assaults by inmates. during the next hour, you will witness life inside san quentin, including a look inside california's vicious death row. >> san quentin opened in 1852 and today, seems physically trapped in the century in which it was conceived. old and decrepit, san quentin is riddled with shadowy alcoves and blind spots. there are no electrified, lethal fences. the towers around the perimeter must still be staffed where, incredibly, there are fewer surveillance cameras than a single convenience store. and worse yet, a lack of modernization has put officers in constant risk of inmate attack. >> every day i walk through those gates, the thought crosses my mind. is today going to be the last? >> the grounds are a sprawling 432 acres located on the shores of beautiful san francisco bay

the case for putting america's house in order by richard haas. in haas is the president of the council on foreign relations and served as a special advisor to secretary of state colin powell. this is from earlier this month. >> very honored to be here with my friend, richard haas, and i'm here because richmond and i go really far back. i don't want to tell you how far back but we met when we were 21 years old and you can do the math, and so i've been richard's friend and have followed his thinking, agreeing with some, disagreeing with some over the years but always been my friend. but i'm here because i was very excited about this book, foreign policy begins at home, from the very moment i heard the title and then from the first conversation i had with richard about it. richard and i were colleagues together at the brookings institution and the first question i'm going to did of you, rich, given this title, i would don't you just merge the council on foreign relations with the brookings institution? that would be a very logical thing to do. in li