. ♪ >> roger. the clock is operating. we're under way. read loud and clear. roger. okay. >> a little bumpy here. >> stand by for 20 seconds. roger. backup clock is started. still. 102, 108. oxygen 78. 100 amps. 2-7. >> roger. loud and clear. flight path is good. back-up clock is started. >> minus 7-0 on your mark. some vibration coming up here now. we're smoothing out some now, getting out of the vibration area. >> roger. reading you loud and clear. flight path looks good. pitch 25. stand by. >> roger. cannot see the tower go. i saw the smoke go by the window. >> roger. 1.5 gs. >> friendship 7, we got you. >> roger, this is friendship 7. all the greats fired. okay. >> roger, 0-g. i feel fine. capsule is turning around. oh, that view is tremendous. >> roger. power has started. >> roger, capsule. turning around. and i can see the booster during turnaround, just a couple of hundred yards behind me. it was beautiful. >> the word is "go" and john glenn is go and with him go all of mankind's dreams of some day touching the unattainable stars. under a tropic sun, the track

oh, the view is tremendous. >> roger. >> roger, capsule. turning around. can see the booster turning around a couple hundred yards behind me. it was beautiful. >> the word is "go" and john glenn is go and with him go all of mankind's dreams of touching the stars. the tracking ship "rose knot" waits and follows his track to the coast of africa. he follows the path of earth below. friendship 7 makes a slow boat out of the sun as the spacecraft gi girdles the earth at 17,500 miles an hour, john glenn streaks away from today into the night of tomorrow, racing toward the dawn of yesterday. as glenn sights the sights of perth and flashes over australia and across the pacific to contact waiting ground stations in wymas, mexico and california waits as friendship 7 streaks home to the land of its origin. an unseen comet lining across the united states in eight lightning minutes of flight. completing three history-making circuits of the globe, john glenn fires retro rockets so spiral it back to earth. >> five, four, three, two, one. >> roger. retros are firing. are

mcmorris rogers. mrs. mcmorris rogers votes aye. mr. harper votes aye. mr. lance votes aye. mr. cassidy votes aye and mr. guthrie votes aye. mr. olsson votes aye. mr. mckinley votes aye. mr. gardener votes aye. mr. mom peo. he votes aye. mr. kin singer votes aye. mr. griffith votes aye. mr. waxman votes no. mr. dingle votes no. mr. marky. mr. marky votes no. mr. towns votes no. mr. paloan votes no. mr. rush votes no. mr. eschew votes no. mr. engle votes no. mr. green votes no. ms. duget votes no. mrs. caps votes no. mr. doyle. mr. doyle votes no. mr. gonzalez votes no. mr. insly votes no. ms. baldwin. mr. ross. mr. ross votes aye. mr. mathisson votes aye. mr. butterfield votes no. mr. barrow. mr. barrow votes aye. miss matsui votes no. mr. christianson votes no. ms. castor votes no. chairman upton. >> votes aye. >> wishing to cast a vote? seeing none, the clerk will report the tally. >> on that vote, 33 ayes and 20 nays. >> the ayes have it and the bill is favorably recorded. without objection, staff is authorized to make technical and changes to the bill approved by the committ

reginald rogers -- reginald rogers claims he was alone the night 18-year-old calvin was shot and killede judge gave him the choice. tell the truth or go to jail. go to trial, that is. fox 5s paul wagner has more details. paul? >> reporter: reginald rogers thought he had a deal in place a few months ago, where he would plead guilty to second- degree murder and get a sentence of 20 years and more than that. the prosecutors encouraged the judge to accept the deal. when the judge learned that reginald rogers claimed he was alone at night and there was evidence he was not, he rejected the deal and gave rogers a choice. he said can you give up your partner or go to trial. so, rogers chose the trial. he's been on trial now here in d.c. superior court the last two weeks and, for the time, he and his attorney are trying to convince the jury that rogers acted in self-defense that night when 18-year-old calvin woodland was shot to death on barnaby street in january of 2010, the anguish in that community was palpable. puta, as he was again, was the son of the legend air boxer calvin woodland senior

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pick that up, ed rogers. is that's very important. >> certainly santorum is each. >> we can't deny santorum is where he is and the republican party right now is a movement and not a well-organized party and the movement is angry. rick santorum has a foothold in there. >> let me -- maybe the cultural conservatism is playing better than folks think. okay? did maybe his reach out to blue-collar workers. go ahead, tony. i'm sorry. >> not only that, but rick santorum seemed authentic and i talked to a number of people across this country, that say i may not agree with him on everything, but he doesn't have the baggage that other candidates have. let's go back on the democratic vote. mitt romney won new hampshire with the independent vote. so to say that you're going to have democrats vote actually is the same type of movement that ronald reagan had that brought disenfranchised democrats who retired in the liberal party into the republican party and barack obama and nancy pelosi are driving hundreds of thousands of

and he also says there are no signs of inflation lucky for us legendary investor jim rogers is here to tell us how wrong bernie is meanwhile angela merkel is in china reportedly trying to convince the country with three point two trillion dollars worth of foreign exchange reserves just for a little in the direction of the euro zone so one could shelling out for the trouble debtors by the largest creditor nation in the world will find out and another major euro zone credit pusher christine legarde we just saw her taking her fund raising efforts to the world economic forum coming to collect for the i.m.f. but one might her and more of these heavy hitting women the butting heads will give you the back story let's get to the day's capital account. ok so ben bernanke the federal reserve chairman testified on capitol hill in washington today and you know it was really interesting it really sounds like u.s. congressman who is the house budget committee chairman paul ryan actually knows what's up listen to him talking about quantitative easing and the impact it's had on keeping treasury yields

i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ] it's like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >>> we heard a truly chilling forecast this week that war could break out in the middle east almost at any time. it comes from someone who should know, the defense secretary leon panetta. it's only the latest stunning statement he's made. barbara? >> a top aide to panetta says, look, he's just a man who is blunt and direct and helps the president deliver messages when needed, but that blunt talk is causing a lot of raised eyebrows. when defense secretary leon panetta let it be known he was worried israel might soon bomb iran's nuclear facilities, he set off his own mini-explosion. >> a little surprised he was as gressive in his talks. we have a lot of discussions in classified settings. i was taken aback a bit. >> some staff members tell cnn they have been startled business hi continuing public revelations. these are sensitive matters

because bill rogers -- the president brings bill rogers in at a very difficult time in '73 when he's about to fire haldeman. it is a strange relationship. >> bill rogers and dick knicks be were close personal friend. through most all of his career. when he was his best friend in the eisenhower cabinet, and he henry would have liked it if haldeman would have liked to get rid of rogers but they would never say that to dick nixon was dick nixon was loyal. >> but he did marginalize. >> yeah. marginalized what he was doing. but bill rogers wasn't able to cope with the ability to wield power that mel laird could do or henry kissinger could do. they were -- they knew how to move things around in a tougher way. bill is just a very nice guy, a very smart guy and a very honest guy. >> fast forward a bit. did you see president nixon after he resigned -- how long after he resigned did you see president nixon? >> well, i saw him frequently afterward. i don't know how often. the first call i had after san clemente, before he left, the smoking gun tape had him talking to colson about me in which he

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reginald rogers was found guilty in the death of calvin woodland, jr. rogers thought he had a deal to plead guilty to a lesser charge but the judge refused to accept it unless he revealed who his alleged accomplice was. he refused and police have never identified a second suspect. >>> planned parenthood is getting a lot of support right now because it comes after the charity susan g. komen for the cure cut grants to planned parenthood. virginia congressman jim moran publicly asked komen to reverse

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rogers. send in your questions and e-mails and a few final thoughts from david murrin. >>> let's get some final thoughts from our guest host, tafd murrin. that's your final thoughts as we head into the weekend, into monday as we are expect iing to get a bailout for greece. >> i really like gold. gold is a good launching point. i think whether greece gets a bailout or not the issue of the eurozone's viability will remain and it will keep remaining until it either grows or doesn't grow. but, most importantly, particularly well educated about the world and i think we have the capability to see further ahead because that's what they're trying to do. and so considering what's done now is a legacy we leave our children. as i've gotten older and grayer, which is happening very quickly these days, i keep thinking about how can we use, what areas can we invest in and educate other people for that gives our children a better legacy. and that's something i feel very strongly about. >> what's the one thi

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in fact, roger and his company built some of thed speedways that nascar races on today. >> larry: rogeroesn't have the task of spotting. kind of up there to take a look at the big picture, as you said, darrell from a view that you wouldn't get anywhere else. >> darrell: he is the captain. he can be whereever he wants to be. >> mike: there he is with tom logano, joey's dad and other folks talking about what will happen in the last 40 high pressure laps of the daytona 500 once we get back underway. brad kezelowski is tweeting again! can't tweet and drive. please don't tweet and drive. especially not at 195 miles an hour. >> mike: red flag out in the daytona 500 and like any traffic jam, people get out of their cars and walk down to take a look at what is going on. and why their traffic is stopped. at turn three, they continue to clean up the turn three banking where juan pablo montoya impacted a safety truck after his car broke and put us under the red flag with 40 laps to go in the daytona 500. there is the fun police. nascar official buster telling the drivers come on back to your cars.

in fact, roger and his company built some of thed speedways that nascar races on today. >> larry: rogeroesn't have the task of spotting. kind of up there to take a look at the big picture, as you said, darrell from a view that you wouldn't get anywhere else. >> darrell: he is the captain. he can be whereever he wants to be. >> mike: there he is with tom logano, joey's dad and other folks talking about what will happen in the last 40 high pressure laps of the daytona 500 once we get back underway. brad kezelowski is tweeting again! can't tweet and drive. please don't tweet and drive. especially not at 195 miles an hour. >>ike: red flag out in the daytona 500 and like any traffic jam, people get out of their cars and walk down to take a look at what is going on. and why their traffic is stopped. at turn three, they continue to clean up the turn three banking where juan pablo montoya impacted a safety truck after his car broke and put us under the red flag with 40 laps to go in the daytona 500. there is the fun police. nascar official buster telling the drivers come on back to your cars. w

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i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ]s like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >>> we start the second half of the show with stories we care about, do the reporting, and find the outfront five. >> the u.s. economy added 244,000 johns. that was much expected. stocks surged as a result. all three averages up by more than a percent. nasdaq, levels not seen since december in the year 2000. number two, the fbi has launched a criminal investigation after confirming a hacking group reported a call between the fbi and scotland yard. law enforcement officials tell us that the conversation was recorded after an e-mail about the conference call was intercepted. the call was placed two weeks ago and involved an investigation into a hacking group called lulsec. they added no fbi computers were hacked. but they're accused of hacking three computers run by the british government. >> following public outrage, the susan g. komen admi

i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ]re connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >> sean: welcome back to special edition of hannity. faith in america. earlier at the white house they backed down on their contra september active mandate that they were put on the church and instead they transferred that mandate to the insurance companies. >> if a women's employer that has a religious objection that n providing contraceptive services the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive care free of charge. >> sean: contra september active mandate has been a p.r. nightmare for the white house. it could have a major impact come november considering that catholics make up 27% of the electorate in 2008. in addition catholic voters supported barack obama over john mccain by a 9-point margin in 2008. joining me is is chairman of the faith and freedom coalition and talk

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roger simon joins me now to talk about his article.for your time. >> thanks for asking me. >> well, obviously, we've had many republicans on and you see them on msbc and michael steele and the west say they're really happy this is a weed out process. this is how you get the best candidate to face off against the president in november. >> well, that's what they say on tv. that's how it's supposed to work. it's supposed to be darwinian, the survival of the fittest. the strong eat the weak. but we've eaten the weak for quite awhile now. and we're still looking for that strong republican. the race has gotten down to ron paul, newt gingrich, rick santorum, and mitt romney. romney was the front-runner for week after week after week. now rick santorum is. but you find me a republican leader who privately will say, rick santorum is going to be the next president of the united states. they're not saying that. they're saying if we nominate rick santorum, we're going to lose 35 states. >> you write in your article that "mitt romney is hoping that

a ano one roger wallman, head of wal-mart labs. his office in silicon valley look nothing like a wal-mart. in fact the closest wal-mart store is 17 miles away, across the san francisco bay in oakland. but it's here where roger ronman thinks about the future of retailing. particularly jn line. now web has his work cut out for him. wal-mart may be the biggest retailer in the real world, but amazon is the biggest retailer on-line. amazon's success, thanks in large part to, roger ronman. he is a former amazon executive. his ideas are behind much of that company's success. >> anan roger ronman is a serial entrepreneur. he is also one of the earliest investors in facebook and not once, but twice, apparently had the opportunity to buy google. joint by kate mets of wired magazine. mccall of "fortune" as well. we could start in so many places but let's start in the competition between you and amazon. you were a key figure at amazon that helped amazon grow into what it is today. >> thanks for saying that. it is a little bit of an exaggeratio

rogers. mr. rogers votes no. mrs. mi rick. mrs. mi rick votes no. mr. sullivan. mr. sullivan votes no. mr. murphy. mr. burgess. mr. burgess votes no. mrs. blackburn. mr. bill gray. mr. bill gray votes no. mr. bass. mr. bass votes no. mr. gingry. mr. ska lis. mr. ska lis votes no. mr. lata votes no. mrs. mcmorris rogers. mrs. mcmorris rogers votes no. mr. harper. mr. harper votes no. mr. lance. mr. lance votes no. mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy votes no. mr. guthrie. mr. guthrie votes no. mr. oleson. mr. oleson votes no. mr. mckinley. mr. mckinley votes no. mr. gardener. mr. gardener votes no. mr. pock peo votes no. mr. kin singer. mr. kin singer votes no. mr. griffith. mr. griffith votes no. mr. waxman. mr. waxman votes aye. mr. dingle. mr. dingle votes no. mr. marky. mr. marky votes aye. mr. towns. mr. towns votes aye. mr. paloan? >> mr. paloan votes aye. mr. rush votes aye. mr. engle votes aye. >> mr. green votes no. mr. duget votes no. mr. caps votes aye. mr. doyle. mr. doyle votes no. mr. shekowsky votes aye. mr. congal ez votes no. mr. insly votes no. ms. baldwin. mr.

i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ]like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. to determine if you need a fishing license and boat registration before you head out on the water. let us begin. no, i mean, like a -- [quack] that's the one. ick. yuck. yike. no, thanks, mister. regardless how you answered, you need to be licensed and registered, because it helps local conservation efforts protect the very natural resources you enjoy boating and fishing in for generations to come. do your part at takemefishing.org. ♪ >> mike: this week the attorney general of nebraska and colleagues from texas and south carolina sent a letter to health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius threatening to take legal action against the administration contraceptive mandate. attorney general john bruning joins me from nebraska. great to have you here. why have you and your colleagues threatened to sue the obama administration. what is

i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ]re not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >>> i think if there's a large turnout here, i think that will be very good and if i'm staying in contention in cleveland, then i expect we'll win. >> jerry springer is back with me now, looking still very youthful. >> i should just tell you that was exactly 30 years ago yesterday. >> was it really? >> that i announced for governor, back in '82, february 1st. >> you once worked on bobby kennedy's campaign? >> that was my first elected political involvement. but only for four months. in all your experience, is this any nastier than any republican democrat. not particularly nastier, we have now obviously the 24/7 coverage and so much more money spent on advertising that the commercials are so much rougher. so that probably is, but in terms of the hostility in the nation, people are forgetting 1968. in 1968, the nation was really divided. and i don't mean just by those wh

it didn't work. >> reporter: rogers turned heads but soon raised eyebrows inside the white house.itical advisers were worried about appearances as the nation descended into economic crisis. there seemed to develop a caricature as if you were doing things that were glamorous or tone deaf to the times, to the economic realities. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: how do you respond to that? do you think that was unfair? >> i don't think i have to. i think anyone who knows me and knows the kind of work and creed i follow, they know better. i'm not that much of a glamour girl. >> reporter: then there was what she said in the wall street journal magazine calling the obamas the best brand on earth. the presidents' advisers were not pleased. >> i'm a business person. i'm not trying to be a politician. >> reporter: was it a matter of being straightforward and honest and maybe that doesn't go over well in washington? >> you're not going to get me to say that. >> reporter: just as it appeared she had weathered the early growing pains. >> mr. and mrs. salahi. >> reporter: michaele and tareq salahi talk

morton of maryland or i believe it's rogers. he had a brother in kentucky, was it thurston. he said, rogers, if you want the vice presidential nomination i'll give it to you. morton said no, no, so he settled on agnew. there wasn't a real ground swell for anyone, but also nixon couldn't afford to alienate anyone. there was -- he still had a tiny bit of fear that if i nominate someone that the party doesn't like, the floor might revote and maybe they might go for reagan. so, yes, it defies common sense but consider nixon's options, he didn't have any. and agnew alienated nobody because the question was spiro who? >> also, by the way, you use the word puzzle. 1968 look at those times, that year. the whole year was a total puzzle. you have assassination of robert kennedy, martin luther king, two conventio conventions, total chaos at both of them but particularly at the democratic convention, vietnam war going crazy. the surprise announcement that lbj wasn't going to run again. if you look at the times, i mean, nothing made sense th