if i am like this it is robert george. if it is like this it is sherrod small. >> you can hit him with a ball if you want. >> i like the sherrod part. >> there is a tv station that has uh -- adopted this pc code. >> new york 1. they will talk about an attack in a neighborhood and say this person is in their 30s about 5 foot 8. >> loves fried chicken. loves basketball. ii am not saying what he is, but he loves to -- what? >> and always winking. >> and would not stop talking in the medea movie. >> is -- i understand -- we'll talk about that later. is it profiling when you have a description of the suspect? you are not saying there is recall blacks, but a person that matches the description. >> if there is a specific individual that they feel has committed a crime of purse snatching or whatever. they have a description and they need to give the description. 5 foot blonde and blue eyed or 6 foot and no hair and dark complex. i feel you. it is insane and contrary to the public safety particularly in a college they should be com

shot and killed trayvon martin last february is a symbol of america's deep rooted racism meet robert george's brother a series of tweets this weekend the younger zimmerman compared trayvon martin to a teenager who shot and killed a baby in atlanta last week he also slammed the liberal media for not seeing the obvious connection between martin and the atlanta shooter their race blueberry do a shoot out if what these two black teens did to a woman and baby is the reason people. blacks might be risky. unbelievable level of bigotry needed to even think of let along make such a comparison is just very very quickly. after the break the hunger games are coming to america right now americans are being left to fend for themselves and fight for the right to survive so how can we stop this travesty tell you and tonight still take. what you have no way to live. when you don't have a family. when you have no one to ask for help you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and also it is a like field soundex conviction that it was people like he used to be. done for the homeless. on oxy. pot

last night as a one seed they played 8 seed george mason. robert morris, not george mason. they fell like a sack of potatoes. kentucky is shaking and waiting for determiney time. i'm shep, that's it. the dow' up, we're happy about it. but there's trouble, trouble, trouble. as you've been filling out your march madness brackets, quietly, without a bunch of fanfare, wait until you hear this. >> you know what is good? pitino knows how to motivate his crew. >> neil: he may know how but does the president? while he released his ncaa brackets today, he's yet to get a budget in at all. get ready because a very different march madness is about to kick in. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. forget the hoops, republicans say time to dunk the perez. before he got to israel he got to this. >> good match but i like syracuse because biden told me if i didn't pick them he wouldn't talk to me. >> the president gets the brackets in on time but missing his budget deadline four out of five years sends a different signal. as much as we love a good game, the president's budget 44 days late. t

robert zimmerman jr. tweeted out the photos. his brother, george zimmerman, is accused of murdering trayvon martin last year. martin on the right. and on the left is demarquis. elkins, one of the teenager as excused of killing a baby in georgia. zimmerman apologized and explained his action to piers morgan. >> i read the tweets carefully and no doubt, they were incendiary, and i want to draw in particular attention to two of them. one, you said here, ant tono santiago's alleged killer and trayvon martin #uncanny. second one says liberal media should ask if what these two black teens did to a woman and a baby is the reason people think blacks might be risky. >> right. >> the first one i thought was very controversial. the second one, i found blatantly honest with you, i thought was boarding on outright racism. it seems to me what you are saying is this is why young blacks are risky. in other words, that is why my brother, george, did what he did to trayvon martin. >> certainly that's one way to read it. and that seems to be the way a lot of people a

i've always thought particularly after i read george roberts twelve tree hughes's book he published eight hundred thirty eight which was the only he was the only survivor of the boston tea party who actually lived to tell the story because they'd all sworn an oath to secrecy and to this day we only know the name of three of the participants because he wrote about the book other than sam adams bragging about it but nobody of seriously. that without the ability to behave anonymously without anonymity we would not have had the boston tea party and we would not have a republic that the fourth amendment is there because it is so necessary for people to be polygamists are overthrowing the government just political action to be able to stand up and speak out i mean one of the major. things that was used against martin luther king for example was you know trying to snoop you know his private life and even blackmail him with that information hoover. this is critical stuff isn't it is the fourth amendment is a regional the. a part of our constitution was a reaction to this general warrant the notio

joined once again by george weigel, an nbc vatican analyst along with father robert barron. tingly enough by an american, cardinal james harvey, a junior cardinal deacon, they are on their own. and tonight after what we assume will be an inconclusive first ballot, they'll return to the vatican guest house, the saint martha's house where they'll have dinner together, and then tomorrow morning when they return to the sistine chapel to continue the balloting process, as cardinal kristoff schonborn comes up, they will go back by bus. some will want to walk, but it's not terribly pleasant walking weather right now. >> cardinal george of chicago behind. >> we should note we saw one of the cardinals as they made their way into the room being assisted and there are a number of people working, attending to the cardinals, medical staff to other assistants who swore their own oath yesterday to secrecy. >> they will not -- it's my understanding not be actually in the voting process but they will have access to the cardinals before and after. >> that's right. that's the cardinal of naples

george weigel is our nbc news vatican analyst, and tom roberts is managing editor of "the national catholicter" and author of "the emerging catholic church." george, you know, in american presidential politics, we always try to correct for the latest president. you know, we had truman who had too much of a kansas city problem, so we brought in mr. clean eisenhower. we had nixon and ford, so we brought in a guy who had never been involved in politics or been to washington, carter. and we brought in reagan because he was seen as strong, and carter was seen as weak. what will they try to correct in history in this conclave? >> well, chris, i don't think conclaves work quite the way american politics works, which is probably good news for all of us. i think the cardinals are looking for a charismatic, missionary, evangelical pastor, someone with real experience with people, someone who can present the church's proposal to the world with confidence and good humor, and i think they're also looking for a man who can hire someone, an effective cardinal secretary of state, to take a grip on the vati

but coincide with you were george washington dined with robert carlyle. this is the dining room at the carlyle house, were george washington dined many times. this is all original and carved woodwork, original flooring. it's the actual were george washington dined. this is an important moment in american history. in 1755, rodrick came to town and chose carlyle to be his headquarters because he caught a conference at the governor's. john carlisle looked at the grandest congress ever held. it probably was the grandest congress and to the continental congress in philadelphia 20 years later. and they met in this room. one of the things they taught that was how to pay for the war. but they suggested ways taxing the columnists. remember taxation without representation. and now the room is set up for dinner and it would have been when george washington came for dinner, when he and the other demo maintained here, but also various taverns around town. so let's go over and see gadsby's tavern, which is george washington favorite tavern. >> probably george washington

robert doesn't speak for the defense. he doesn't speak for george. they're clearly very angry. >> yes, they are very angry. and i don't disclose -- >> you know why they're angry? >> absolutely. and i understand why. >> let me lay bare what people are saying. they are saying that when you, as george zimmerman's brother, tweet that liberal media should look at what these black teens did to a woman and a baby allegedly -- >> allegedly. >> this is what you tweeted -- you didn't say allegedly in the tweet. you just said what they did. >> because the liberal -- no, no, no. because the liberal media was doing it last year to my brother, piers. >> let me read exactly what you tweeted. >> i tweeted it. i understand -- no, no, i'm saying right now. >> but there is an irony in you presuming the guilt. >> i'm clarifying the time line, because there was presumed guilt of my brother at this time and to this day by members of congress referred to as a murderer, and he is not convicted of any crime. >> well, he killed -- he killed trayvon martin. >> the allegation s

let's bring in democratic strategist jamal simmons and former senior adviser to george bush, robert trainernator cruz right? have republicans started to turn things around? >> no, i don't think they have. the problem with senator cruz is he's like me, when my shirts are getting a little too tight, i think they must be shrinking them in the dry cleaner. it's not the dry cleaner. it's not the shirt. it's me. i'm eating too much. republicans have to change their behavior in the same way. they've got to get back into shape. what they're doing is looking for all kinds of outside reasons why they're not being able to sell. the reality is republican policy is republican politics. they've got to decide, are they going to cater to the small narrow base inside republican congressional districts or the big broad base who voted for -- 5 million americans voted for the president of the united states. we increased the number of senators in the united states. gerrymandering kept the republicans in charge, but they've got to decide what they want to be. a nationally based party or a congressionally based p

robert mueller. in an exclusive interview with abc's george ste, he wouldn't s whether it was authentic but confirm authorities trying to figure out what happened. >> we should not be surprised if you have hackers who want to dig in and devote a lot of resources, that they can access people's private information. it is a big problem. >> right into the white house. >> i'm not confirming that's what happened. but you've got websites out there that sell people's credit cards that have been stolen. >> reporter: the secret service and fbi have launched full scale investigations. they're trying to determine if the information is authentic, how it was accessed and ultimately, who was responsible for posting it. sources tell abc news, some of the posted information appears to be accurate and would not be widely available to the public. credit reports may include social security numbers and typically provide financial information about people's debts. >> when someone has your credit report, what kind of bad things can they do in. >> they can masquerade as you. if they have your credit report, they can take your identit

to her, and the threat trayvon martin allegedly made against george zimmerman the night martin was shot. sunny hostin is on the case. roberte zimmerman's staunchest defenders. you just talked to him. what did he say? why did he do this? >> yeah, i talked to him for about 40 minutes. anyone that knows robert zimmerman and has spoken to him knows he's very passionate about his family, very, very supportive of his brother. and he said he understands the tweet may have been offensive to many. he apologizes for it. he also mentions that he understands that this is still a very sensitive topic, but what he really takes issue with is that he believes that the media has unfairly portrayed this case. he said to me that he feels that the picture of trayvon martin that we just showed was trayvon's digital signature to the world, because it was trayvon martin himself that placed that photograph out there. and that is what he says he meant by that. he seems to be extremely frustrated by the way he says the media has sort of framed the discussion. he told me that, gagain, he fees the media is not being honest about who trayvon martin wa

>> many team, robert does not represent george or the defense.e of what he did this week but just because we've always said the defense has to have one voice and it's through my office. having said that, i'm not sure where his heart was, but i've always said to the past year that we have to have a conversation about race and the zimmerman case has brought you the forefront, particularly the way young black males are treated in the system. these type of tweets, these type of comments were insensitive to that and the opposite of what i hoped the conversation would be to try and figure out what's wrong with the system and maybe a good way to fix it. >> he tweeted eventually, i'm sincerely sorry. my tweet offended many. i made an error in the way it could convey and understand why it's offensive. but when he was brought on peers morgan' show to talk more about what he tweeted, here's what he told piers. >> i made a tweet about here with two images of two individuals, two, one accuse of a crime, one who in our minds would have gotten away with a crime

george w. bush, also robert behr, jim richards who recovered his own son's body after 9/11, and attorney alan dershowitzlet me start with you, fran, to tee up what's really happened here because this character was first arrested in turkey. i'm not quite sure what he was doing there. then after 33 days he was released because turkish lot said he had to be. then he was flown to jordan. >> let's talk about what we didn't know. he had been in relative safety in house arrest in iran for a decade. why would he have left iran not knowing if he would have been taken into captivity? we don't know why he went to turkey. it seems pretty clear that the turks didn't want to have responsibility for his ultimate sort of how he was handled. and wanted him gone. there was an agreement, clearly, that he would be accepted into jordan. there's a cia tip, and obviously, the cia is able to get custody of him through their jordanian allies so he could be transferred to the united states and fbi custody. >> also a major coup for the cia to pull in this guy, a front man for al qaeda. we have all seen him ranting after 9/11 and

it wasn't long after that after discussion the idea with his neighbor in hawaii george roberts of kkrichael dell approached the company about the possibility of a management-led buyout. a special committee of directors was formed to negotiate with dell and one of the first acts was try to get a handle on what the company was really worth. a new financial and strategic forecast was announced in september, but as dell's performance continued to deteriorate in the fall, and even that plan which called for far lower margins and revenues still forecast 4 important 2 billion. that seemed optimistic. sourcers tell me the special committee made the unusual choice of turning to the consulting firm of bcg to help and understand the future of the pc business and the prospects for dell to transform itself. bcg gave the special committee an appraisal, that approached dell would not generate operating income of $4 billion for years to come and would pose roughly 3.4 billion in operating income this year. that's a number that sources tell me looks optimistic now. >> we'll have more on the potential,

now to a new controversy in the trayvon martin case stemming by tweets from the brother of george zimmerman. robertis tweets. in one he compares trayvon martin to one of the two suspects in the t shooting of a georgia baby. he wrote, quote, facebook pics of 13-month-old alleged killer and trayvon martin side by side. #uncanny. both teens are making on scene gestures in the photos. the caption says, a picture speaks a thousand words. another tweet, liberal media should ask if what these two black teens did to a woman and baby is the reason why people think blacks might be risky. robert zimmerman now admits it's probably not the best forum to express himself. >> i don't think twitter is the place to make points about what you recall a year ago because the recollections that i have or that we have as a family specifically are very different from what can be portrayed in 140 characters. i realize we're controversial in a sense and i publicly apologized for them. i didn't think it was the right way. >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. he says, zimmerman does, he was trying to make the po

tom roberts is managing editor of the national catholic reporter. georgeknow, an more than presidential politics, we always tried to correct for the latest president. we had truman who was too much of a kansas city. we had nixon who had never been involved in politics or to washington. carter was seen as weak. what are they going to try to correct, if you will, in history in this conclave? >> i think the cardinals are looking for a charismatic, missionary, evangelical, if you will, pastor. someone with real experience of people. someone who can present the churnl's proposal to the world with confident and good humor. and i think they're looking for a man who can hire someone, an effective cardinal secretary of state to take a grip on the vatican. who, at the present moment, is not functioning very well at all. so i think that's the package deal. >> tom, let me ask you the same question. will they go for ceo or chairman of the board sort of figure and hoping or believing that he would be the right person to pick a tough operating officer. >> well, in this c

. >>> santa clara supervisor george sirakawa left office in disgrace for spending public money on gambling and other abuses. robert's board decision on how to fill his vacant seat. >> reporter: there was a noticeable face missing today with the portraits of the santa clara board supervisors are displayed. he has agreed to plead guilty to numerous felony charges including spending campaign and public funds to feed a gambling addiction. today the board unanimously voted to hold a special election scheduled for june 4th rather than appoint a temporary replacement. >> it gives them a right of self-determination. >> reporter: the county registrar of voters began getting ready as soon as they were notified. chavez and alvarado have been talked about possible candidates. >> five to 15 candidates, there's a filing fee involved. so that could deter some candidates. there's about a $1,400 filing fee for that. >> reporter: on march 15, ch era kawa will be in court and a sentencing date will be held. there's an an on going investigation into his alleged violation. >> we don't make that the information or details of that publi

father robert baron has been with us listening to all of this. he's up with lester and george. and father, tell us what procedurally is going on now. >> well now, if the pope has been elected, he's asked if he's willing to accept. then he will be going to the famous room of tooers and be fitted. . and eventually make his way up. there's also time for the cardinals to greet him and to make a certain gesture to him. all that's kboing on now between this appearance of the white smoke and the appearance of the new pope. >> and george, the part of the announ announcement, first of all, is identifying the new pope, which experts like all of you can do from sight. but the second part is the name they have chosen. to put it in plain english, do those who are believed to be on the short list have that in mind going into a conclave? >> well, brian, i would think in this case which reading backwards from this moment, things really started moving this morning. you would have to think that whoever this is who is going to come out spent a little bit of time during the lunchtime break and the

one, there is a midterm elections, democrats win, george bush fires donald rumsfeld and hires robert gates. 2, it is announced general david petraeus will be going back to iraq as the top commanders. number 3, george bush announces that he is ordering a surge of troops in iraq, sending another 20,000 troops. number 4, that he is changing strategy to essentially a counterinsurgency strategy. he calls it clear, cold and build which is an old phrase being that you clear an area of insurgents. they are not capable of holding it. and help the government provide basic service and build trust in the community and build a security structure. these four things did not happen by coincidence. it was all part of this plot. when i use the word plot i am generally not a conspiracy guy but these people refer to themselves as a plot. they call themselves the cobol or the west point mafia because a lot of them came out of the social science department at west point which had a tradition of forming networks among their own graduates. this was very conscious. for example, all of this happened not by cli

john roberts is a conservative appointed by george bush in 2005. she said she is rooting for him, she rooted for him to be approved by the senate, saying that he is a smart man and believes that he sees where the tide is going and added that she trusts he will go in a good direction. you can hear the argument in the case tomorrow on -- at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span radio. tonight, on "first ladies," called a bigamist and an adulterer, which will jackson died of an apparent heart attack before she could take office. his niece becomes the white house hostess but is later dismissed from follow scandal. anjelica huston is the white house hostess for father-in-law in the next white house. comments andyour calls tonight on c-span 3, c- span radio, and c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. nader, former presidential candidate, consumer advocate, thank you for being here this morning. the cruel gap between ceo pay and stagnant minimum-wage. you write that this income inequality is more like income tierney. explain. guest: when i was a young man t

. >> ah, but now the time has arrived, robin roberts, we have all seen, well, double of lara and george hard to stand in front of that mirror, robin will be doing so in moments but first what do you say we take a look at our nationwide search to find robin's double. >> reporter: it's definitely a tall order to match our robin roberts. >> you're not on 3-inch heels. >> she shines. taking our everyday -- >> get redry -- >> reporter: the pictures po s d in and our panel, ali wentworth, comedian sherrod small. model cynthia bailey got down to business. >> this is work. >> reporter: there was a certain something in one of the very first entries that immediately stood out. >> how can you resist me? >> magma. >> magma. >> oh. >> wow. >> that was funny. >> reporter: of course, they looked through all of the entries and, boy -- >> good morning, america. >> reporter: were there a lot. >> you look like robin roberts. >> i think it's a compliment. robin is a good-looking lady. >> i think she's really pretty but she does not look like robin. >> very pretty. >> reporter: but they kept coming back to

i read today that axelrod is oining nbc and robert gibbs is joining nbc, and we know that george stephanopoulos is now at abc. it is amazing -- and you wonder what the press does not really get going. my attitude toward cable television and all these reporters going on cable television is simple. if you took away all these guys, this clause, "i think," none of them could say anything, because none of them know very much. so i am there in 1968, freelancing. mccarthy, i do four or five months there. i am freelancing in 1969. nixon is in. nixon campaigned on that great campaign slogan, had a plan to end the war. it turned out that his plan was to win it, but we did not know that. so i'm minding my business. i had done a book, chemical and biological warfare, but i was married, had a kid, and if i made $8,000 in 1969 it was a lot. my wife was a social worker. four gallons of gasoline for a uck. also heating oil was 18 cents. you could live. in late 1969 i got a contract from random house to do something on pentagon waste. i am doing it. it is money in the bank. i get a call one day. it was from som

roberts. i guess hbo did something with george bush's head on the spike. >> i think people have too much timen their hands. could we start with the markets? are you kidding me? >> there is george bush. >> what is going on here? alex! put that down! >> they had to apologize for that. >> do you want people to watch this show? seriously. stupid. >> that's not juiceesus, it's s. people were into that in the bar. >> i'm going to move on. >> they were the only ones like in high school cheering for the devil. >> i'm going to try to move on and save you all from yourself. we begin with the markets. big repercussions this morning to a controversial plan by european leaders to partially fund a bailout of cyprus. today, cyprus parliament will hold an emergency vote to review the terms of a rescue package that targets individual savings accounts in exchange for billions of dollars of emergency crash and creditors impose onetime tax of 3% on all bank deposits under $130,000. >> going deep here. >> the tax could be closer to 10% on people who have over $640,000 in the bank. that's according to the "the wal

hour by a pair of political heavyweights, robert gibbs for the dems and steve schmidt for the republicans. stunning election in the vatican. mike barnicle and george weigel, nbc news vatican analyst. i want to start with mike. as a fellow american generalist and a catholic, what is your -- how surprised were you by picking this guy known for social justice and for humility and for really looking out for the little people to use the phrase we often use? >> well, you know, chris, i was -- i was actually stunned by two things. and one i had forgotten. i had forgotten about the theater of the church. the explosion of people in st. peter's square. the universe yalty of the church. the fact that not everyone in st. peter's square was catholic. and the fact that the curia, college of cardinals, selected a jesuit as our next pope to me was very surprising. and very encouraging, actually. despite the fact he's 76 years of age, a little older than i think a lot of american catholics expected the next pope to be in terms of age, he is a jesuit. and in terms of what the jesuits are and what they profess, the faith that they have, the faith that they preach, t

roberts with us from the steps of the supreme court. thomas, great to see you. >> reporter: hi, karen. >> also with us from washington, george washington university law professor jon thi turly. thanks for joining us. thomas, i want to start with you. you were there at the court. seems like the tone from folks coming out a little bit different than yesterday. feeling a little bit more optimistic today than maybe we heard yesterday. what's your take? >> reporter: well, it's a lot quieter. i wasn't here yesterday. but i was asking around today the difference between the two types of crowds. yesterday was a little more crowded and a little more contentious to the people i had a chance to talk to. it is very tame today. obviously it's hours later. things have died down. a lot more people are still just walking by taking pictures now. more of the media than anything else. but as we -- as we learned from inside today, karen, the fact that the justices seem very concerned with state rights. and with yesterday being the concern of overstepping california's state rights and getting involved with proposition 8, to now doma, and the fact that doma

robert mcgwire the program directer as george washington university moderated the and you 20 minute discussion welcome to all of you and to viewers who have tuned in via c-span to the gorge washington university and the elliott school of international affairs for this evening's event. it's entitled, big trucks, pop star politics and consensus building, the politics of consensus in haiti. i'm at the elliott school of international attempt studies program. i also serve as the director of the school's latin american and hemispheric studies program this. evening's event is cosponsored by the latin american and the global international studies and its cultural and globe affairs research and policy program. this evening's event marks the debut of a special initiative undertaken by a new unit within the institute of global and international studies. the well-hemisphere working group and its brand new web site initiative called, focus on haiti.org. allow me this opportunity to thank me who colleagues in arms for putting together this important position on haiti. scott freeman and meg pierce. we'll off

george w. bush administration problem, that's an american problem with us coming to think that the military is the easiest solution to many of our biggest problems. >> robertyou as someone who has worked in the administration and has worked with the president, who is currently in office, how much has the legacy of iraq shaped president obama's view in terms of military engagement? we talk about syria a lot and there's some thinking, there's some wisdom out there that he doesn't want to get involved there because he understands what a quote-unquote quagmire it can be to get involved in a situation where there is no clear end point. >> well i think first of all, he's the commander-in-chief because of that decision. we, we forget because by the time we came into office in 2009, it was all about the economy. but the animating event really for three years, leading up to that election, was iraq. i definitely think, i think it is, i think it will have a huge impact, it has on this commander-in-chief and will have on future commanders in chief. because they understand that without some popular support, it's hard to go about doing -- a lot of military action. witho

george w. bush famously said, those are plunging into a trough. despite measurable gains in overall productivity. in fact, as robert wright has pointed out, the way those productivity gains are being achieved leaves out workers altogether and they are coming about as a result of action by the policymakers. corporations have an in-- have been investing in technology rather than their workers. they get tax credits and deductions for such investments, they get no tax benefits for improving the skills of their employees. as a result, corporations can now do more with fewer people on their payrolls, it means higher profits and fewer jobs. he adds, joblessness all but eliminates the bargaining power of most workers, allowing corporations to keep wages low. public policies that might otherwise reduce unemployment under w.p.a. or c.c.c., to hire the long-term unemployed, major investments in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, these have been rejected in favor of austerity economics. this also means higher profits, at least in the short run, but not more jobs. in other words, the labor force is being squeezed for the ve

george was a high school wrestler. be sure to tune into "gma" this morning when we meet someone who looks just like robin roberts.heir sleeves this morning. >>> coming up later this half hour, who do you think succeeds more as a top executive, a man or woman? >>> and who says thongs are wrong? not -- anyway, i would say not me, but i don't know what i'm about to say. better stay in character. >> be careful. >> new criticism aimed at the seller of skimpy undergarments marketing sexy stuff to young girls. actually, that is wrong. i'm glad i didn't say anything. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather -- brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. weather -- brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. ♪ ♪ >>> well you have heard the saying, lightning never strikes twice in the same place. except for this guy. young man in a small colombian town, he's been hit, not once, not twice, not three times -- four times. >> how do you get hit by lightning four times and live? >> in the last six months. >> apparently the guy is a walking lightning rod. the town doctor came up with a uni

roberts. oh, wow. i'm not sure if i should move on or -- not sure what to do now. >> i can't believe it's been 30 years. that's right. right back at you. uh-oh, watch out, georgechael jackson. and a dance that inspired robin to say -- give us one. come on. ♪ hee hee >> thank you. thank you, thank you so much. >>> also in "pop news" today, you know when you get a song stuck in your head playing over and over? it's called an ear worm. researchers have a cure. the best way to get rid of that broken record in your head is to do verbal brain puzzles. solving anagrams, crosswords. what happens is it forces your brain to think it's -- this one is a real problem. any way, reading also works. but the reading needs to be challenging enough. you can't sort of flip through a magazine. the song will not go away. a few of the songs you're hearing right now are among the most likely to get stuck in your head. often times, you may not love a song you're thinking of over and over. "bad romance," by lady gaga. "single ladies," by beyonce. and, of course, "call me maybe." >> and the ear worms move right in. >> they move in. they don't know. by using more brain square footage, yo

george? >> thank goodness for that. thanks very much. >>> to politics now and the anatomy of a smear. for weeks the powerful chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, robert menendez, has been denying reports that he paid women for sex in the dominican republic and now one of the women said she was paid to lie about the senator. abc's brian ross is here with all the details on the story that wasn't. good morning, brian. >> good morning, george. that's true. american politics as you know knows few limits and both parties have played their share of dirty tricks. in the case of menendez he appears to be the victim of a very dirty trick involving sex, lies and videotape. here's how it happened. as menendez campaigned for re-election last year, republican operatives secretly went into overdrive to implicate him in a sex scandal. is that the same person you had sex with? [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: six days before, operatives helped arrange interviews in the dominican republic with this woman and this one and this one who all told abc news the senator paid them for sex. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: it supposedly happened at the

cardinal francis george, the archbishop of chicago, said the next monotiff must commit to "zero tolerance." >>> a dominican woman who claims she was paid to have sex with senator robert menendez of new jersey now insists she made the whole story up. according to court documents, the 23-year-old woman says she never even met the democratic senator. but the daily caller, which first broke this story of the scandal, says reports on the story now are getting their escorts mixed up. "the daily caller" claims the dominican woman is not one of the two prostitutes they originally interviewed for their expose last fall. we'll try to sort this out in a live report in our next hour on "starting point." good luck to us on that. >>> the charges getting even more severe. 12 former florida a&m university students now face manslaughter charges for the 2011 hazing death of drum major robert champion jr. ten of them had been previously charged with felony hazing resulting in death. they were notified yesterday that their charges were upgraded to manslaughter. they face a maximum 15-year sentence if convicted. >>> there has been a drone sighting over brooklyn. this happened yesterday a

roberts on the future of cable and where technology is headed. the supreme court is hearing two cases this week dealing with same-sex marriage. today george washington university hosts a discussion of those cases with legal experts. you can see it live at 4 eastern over on c-span. and the oral arguments begin tomorrow with a challenge to california's proposition 8, a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in that state. c-span and c-span radio will have coverage beginning at 1 p.m. eastern. the arguments, along with reaction, will be on c-span again tomorrow night at 8 eastern. and then on wednesday the court hears arguments on the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act enacted during the bush administration. again, c-span and c-span radio will have coverage when the arguments are released to the public at about 2 eastern. it'll be shown again wednesday night at 8 over on c-span. >> let's go straight to a personal topic. you been on the commission since 2006, the chairman's been on since, i believe, 2009. his term is up, yours will be up next year. should we expect to see some turnover at the commission? >> guest: well, you sho

robert t. freeman dental society and funded in part by the state, the deamonte driver mobile dental van project provided diagnostic and preventative services for over 1,000 prince george's county children who live in neighborhoods where otherwise care would have been unavailable to them. the kaiser family foundation awarded 200,000-dollar grant to the american dental action coalition that funded a dental screening program at a school-based health center in prince george's county. i am also very proud of what congress has done. in the chip reauthorization act passed a few months after deamonte's death, we established a guaranteed oral benefit for children. with the leadership of senators baucus, grassley, rockefeller and collins and former senator bingaman, we created grants to states to improve oral health education and treatment programs. we also addressed one of the problems that deamonte's mother faced in trying to get care for him, a lack of readily available information about accessible providers. for a variety of reasons, it's difficult for medicaid and chip enrollees to find dental care. and working parents whose children qualify for those programs are likely to