for independent research she examines the behavior of the transgenic fish bred by bill moore and rick howard. in an old farm building she tries to reproduce a simulated ecosystem in many tanks and aquariums in order to conduct experiments resembling a real life situation our reputation as an independent scientists reaches all the way to thailand the industry is especially anxious to capture the southeastern asian market with genetically modified to love a popular fish on asian menus for this reason it is pressing the governments with applications for approval to be able to sell its transgenic fish earlier than in america and the government of thailand became quite worried because they felt that they were not well equipped to review an application and even know what questions to ask and how to do a risk assessment and be able to make a good decision about whether they should allow the question of the country so they told the researchers please don't even apply formally to introduce these fish because we don't know what to do. under great time pressure and is compiling a risk assessment report

and rick howard of informing tests and doing pioneer research work to determine what actually happens when genetically modified fish soon to be introduced on the market and into the food chain mingle with wild fish for this purpose they are breeding their own transgenic fish to remain independent of the food industry. a number of animals have been made transgenic including and water commercially important. one group that has been studied quite a bit in terms of making. ensure that. individuals are fish and fish for commercial purposes so fifteen twenty different species like salmon like to laugh the like carp have been made transgenic and so we have the facilities and also the expertise to investigate the problem in fish and but also through make our approach to answering those questions such that they can be used and pigs can be used in cattle that can be used in any other type of organ or plants. any type of organism because they did it evolve general features of biology that is common to any organism. to make the transgenic fish begin to recently fertilized eggs and they usually wi

howard kirk from "newsweek" and the daily beast. and joining me here in new york, former congressman rick lazio. howard, let me start with you.ia. does the media deserve applaud for favoriting the story out despite the lies or was the something over the top. >> some people in the media deserve some credit for digging out some of the seamy details. i've covered this story, too. i know you've featured it on this program as well. i think ultimately the reason anthony weiner resigned, in addition to his lies where he basically dug his own political grave, is not simply because other democratic politicians pressured him to do so. that's been going on more than a week. the media were so enamored of the strange and surreal aspects of the story, the new york press corps would not let it drop. he realized the only way to stop the bleeding was to go away. >> let me come back to former congressman lazio. you've been in that chamber. and howard, weigh in on this also. it is material that anthony weiner didn't seem to have any friends among his colleagues. there was no bandying about to support him. how did that happen? >> fundamental her

as howard said, he certainly was untruthful. rick, for the last question, if it was the republican party, which historically, at least, and by reputation is more controlled, more top-down hierarchy, would the leadership have said to him, come on, game other, we're not going to tolerate this? >> i believe that would be the case, yeah. i think you find that republicans just, partly because of their constituency, and the fact that they do make, tend to make values and morality a big part of who they are, as a party, and i'm not suggesting, by the way, the democrats aren't. i'm just saying the republicans tend to position themselves in this space, that they would almost certainly, i think, coalesce around trying to push him out. and i think you'd see an outpouri outpouring of people saying, it's time to step aside. that's why chris lee stepped aside so quickly. i thinks there a major difference, going to howard's point. you look at a different, a slightly different situation, by charlie rangel up in harlem, who was censured and there was

rick check this out! anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save 15% or more on car insurance. >> new tonight at 5:30 p.m., a violent attack inside a howardnty bar and is caught on tape. that attack happened last week inside the second chance saloon in colombia. >> now police need your help finding the woman who had another woman in the face and took her purse. >> the owner of the board thinks the suspect was the guest at a birthday party here that night and police are hoping to get some information and help to find out who she is. but a woman walking into a columbia bar is hit in the face, not on the ground where she sponged and assaulted some more, before her attacker, another woman, takes off with her purse. police are now reviewing the tape. >> you can see in the earlier part of the video that our detectives reviewed that it looks like the suspect is actually waiting and looking at the front door watching people come in. while we do not believe that she knew this woman, we do think that she was targeted, perhaps because she was female or because of her size. >> very shocked. i cannot believe something like that would happen in marylan