ron, what do you see? especially with the print audience as you said being larger than the online audience and now you're online solely. >> no we're not. >> i'm sorry. the entire section is online. you're in print on a daily basis? >> i think the upside the few surviving newspapers that run book reviews will syndicate those reviews around the country to small newspapers and people that live in small towns will be able to read high quality book reviews as they weren't perhaps in the past and that's a good thing. >> very interesting. yeah. >> and the internet also means something -- yesterday's news isn't yesterday's news. it's still today's news. it just isn't at the bottom of the parakeet cage. if something ran to the newspaper, it gets linked everywhere. the text remains available to many people, you know, for a long time. but, you know, as a novelist, i've had to remind myself for years. writing is an art, publishing is a business. so add to that for book criticism publishing is in a state of flux. what

ron mott there with that part of this story. ron, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. they began saying their final good-byes to a group of men who left their indellible mark on these hills in life and now in death. ♪ we'll see you on the other side ♪ >> reporter: today, the first of many funerals scheduled through the weekend for the men whose bodies have been discovered so far. benny willingham, weeks from a planned retirement when he died, doing what he loved said his daughter michelle. >> he loved the mines. besides his family and god this was his life. >> reporter: carl loved the mine, too, though his family said he had grown worried about how safe it was. stephen harrah was out of the mine when it exploded. robert clark gave his life to god three months ago, says his pastor, and again monday afternoon. jason atkins was only 25. two of those carrying the proud title husband. jerry lynch, substitute teacher and coach. deward scott, unforgettable once you met him, boasts his life of nearly as long. >> he lo

ron allen is in north tennessee where the adoptive family lives.with a good morning to you, this is one controversial story to say the least. >> reporter: it is and it's disturbing. that's the word some of the people used to describe what's happened. this is the family home behind me. it's been very quiet for the past couple of days. no one has seen the hansens since the story broke. and even before that people who live around here, everybody knows everybody, people say the family was a bit of a mystery and people just cannot believe what they did to a 7-year-old little boy. the hansen family compound remains shut tight. easter decorations still up. the adoptive mother has not been seen here since word spread she sent her 7-year-old adopted son justin back to russia with a note saying she did not want him. >> i say it's treating a child like a dog. >> reporter: ang lean bailey said she saw the hansens come and go the past few years but they never spoke to her and she never saw the boy. a boy who apparently rarely left the compound, not even to atte

ron paul was bashed apart. remember how rudy giuliani would smack him down when he said something about 9/11 last time around? he's tied with mitt romney. >> the grassroots of the republican party has moved in ron paul's direction since the last election. they view obama as mr. big government or worse and so, therefore, ron paul's anti-government party of no philosophy fits the mood at the grassroots of the republican party right now. it really does. >> gene, it's amazing the party is not party of the elected capitol hill boring crowd. >> this must be terrifying to the capitol hill boring crowd and to establishment candidates like mitt romney who thought it was all teed up for him the next time and you have this base that has drunk an awful lot of the kool-aid. basically. >> they're going to have a lot of fun this november because it's going to be about watching concession speeches from the democrats they manage to beat, right? that's fun. that's the beheadings in the french revolution. they'll watch that. at s

as ron reagan knows, for example, ron reagan against george h.w. bush. >> yeah, but reagan won that. >> yeah. >> and i'm wondering more like 1980 or it's more like '68? which years more like. >> go to the center right or to the hard right. >> '68 no real competition. >> you had romney. >> '64 year where you get goldwater versus rockefeller down to the final. >> i think that the current romney could fall victim to the romney of the past. i'm not sure he has the political chops. here's more on palin today. our story today is really about the rise to the top of the republican party of palin and bachmann. of course, sean hannity and talk show radio people like limbaugh we've been talking about before. these two women have grabbed the stage here today and more than just today. here they are. here's palin welcoming the crowd. let's listen. >> it is really good to be here in the land of 10,000 lakes with pate patriots who love your country. you're so proud to be americans. and you who love your good hunting and fishing and some of you proudly clinging to

sarah palin, mike huckabee, ron paul, tim pawlenty. a few of the big names on the list for 1220. -- 2012. we'll tell you how each of them did, coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] try fixodent with a time-released formula. use just once per day for dawn-to-dark hold. it is important to use the product as directed. fixodent and forget it. >>> welcome back on a saturday. bottom of the hour of the here are your top headlines. rnc chair michael steele address ing southern republican conference blasting democratic lawmakers urging his party to take back congress in the november midterm. >> shock, sorrow, disbelief gripping poe land after the nation's president his wife and 95 others are killed in a plane crash in western russia. president obama sending his condolences. >> crews working to retrieve all the bodies from the west virginia coal mines final four were found today that brings the total number of dead to 29 making it the worst mining disaster in this country in four decades. >>> violent protests breaking out in thailand. the army and red

congressman ron paul joins us now.ank you, john, nice to be with you. >> over the weekend we heard a little bit of back and forth and difference of between sarah palin and newt gingrich whether it should be the party of no. gingrich saying you can't be the party of no. sarah palin, saying it's okay if you don't like something to say no. where do you come down on that? >> i agree with them both. if you don't like something you say no. there's an opposite to no you're saying yes to something. i have to say no to most of the legislation in washington but i am saying yes to the constitution and principles of liberty. in a way they are both right. i don't think there's too much of a agreement there. >> newt gingrich seemed to be saying, that you have to sort of stand for something you can point to. maybe legislatively or on principle, standing up and explaining. when you're the minority party in congress it's harder to show, this is what we want to get done. what is your role as the minority party in congress when it comes

i like ron paul, i'll tell you. the most powerful half ton crew in america has a powertrain backed for 100,000 miles. chevy silverado half-ton a consumers digest best buy and the most dependable, longest-lasting full-sized pickups on the road. get 0% apr for 60 months on 2010 silverado half-ton models with an average finance savings around fifty four hundred dollars. >> jesse: rod blagojevich, is president obama the most radical president in history, as newt gingrich says? >> no, he is not. no, he is not. president obama is governing i think slightly to the left of center. frankly, i kind of expected that he would. i'm disappointed that he is not more radical. the public option, for example. here i know congress paul probably disagrees with me. but the democrats promised the american people a public option, a place where consumers can go and test the marketplace when the private insurance companies aren't offering you a fair rate. that was scuttled. and unfortunately, the democratic congress didn't give the presiden

ron paul of texas and former presidential candidate. stephanie miller, talk radio host, her website stephaniemiller.com. and andrea tateros, new york daily news. big news today. supreme court justice john paul stevens is retiring. who should obama pick to replace him? stephanie? >> well, i'm going to say the most liberal person in the world. i'm going to say janieane garofa garofalo, shakira, michael moore. andrea, the thing is, honestly, i hope that the president doesn't choose his centrist bipartisan path on this that he normally does, governor, because this is a very liberal justice, and in my opinion, the supreme court is already listing very far to the right with the citizens united decision. i call them scotus, the very far right justices on the supreme court. so he needs to pick a liberal. there doesn't need to be any reason to reach out to the other side on this one. >> okay. andrea? >> you can sleep soundly tonight, stephanie, because i have absolutely faith that the president will stick to his liberal values and pick a liberal

>> we're just having fun, ron, you know that. >> of course. >> let's talk about this.sible is it for someone to have a microphone and say, hey, i dare them to come to my door, they're not going to arrest me. i'm going to have a gun at the koor when they show up. >> i think it's stupid and irresponsible. you know, i read this clip and he said liberals are taking his comments out of context. i read the entire thing. it's in our constitution we have a census and these individuals, these temporary employees are coming. they're doing their constitutional responsibility and to even joke about bringing a weapon out when someone's coming to do their job is irresponsible. this person needs to grow up a little bit. >> bill press, what planet is cnn on, or any network keeping somebody on that advocates this kind of behavior? >> i don't know, but i have to say, ed, i think ron christie is getting much too rational to be on this show. i find myself finding it hard to disagree with him. >> i'll bring you to the dark side, bill, don't worry. >> let me tell you something, this is disg

and fellow washington capitals fan ron brownstein. welcome to all of you. i want to talk about this left-right political divide over the economy. let's talk first, congresswoman, about secretary geithner. you heard what he said. >> yes, i did. >> new rules for wall street mean no more taxpayer-funded bailouts? is the cage closed? >> no, it is not closed at all. what the american people want to be certain that we do not do is take boone and bust and replace it with fraud and bailout. they are tired of the bailouts, they want this to end. >> he said the banks are going to pay for it now. >> this too big to fail -- they know better than that. they know this financial regulatory reform bill in its current form that is working its way through is going to institutionalize the bailouts, and this is something that they do not want. >> i have to stop you, congresswoman, what you heard him say, the banks would actually pay for this. why don't you believe that? >> into a fund. because you can look at history. you can see it always gets passed. it's the reagan thing. c

what ron said is correct. both parties have been insufficient in the vigilance with which they have pursued oversight with wall street, but when you get to this point, is that a rationale for not toughing legislation at this point. republicans had tremendous success over the last 15, 16 months invasively arguing that big government was a larger impediment to recovery, but this is an area where obama and the democrats are in a stronger position because wall street is distrusted by more americans at this point than the federal government, so the white house council has been consistent for weeks. they have pushed the democrats to have a tough line. not to make a lot of concessions. they want to force republicans to block this publicly. >> and kelly, is there any sign they have reached an agreement and that actually the democrats will win this vote today or just another attempt to embarrass the republicans? >> at the moment, it seems another attempt to embarrass and maybe bring more pressure, but i talked to senio

. >> misty had been on a drug binge for three days and she and ron had fought that day, and she toldim she didn't want to babysit, and he told her, yes, you are going to babysit, and he left the kids there with her, and she was still strung out. >> i didn't notice about haleigh then until i saw the back door open, and she was gone and that is all i know. >> so, you they the conspiracy extends to ron, and you think it is four people involved in the conspiracy? >> yes, ma'am, i do. >> again, haleigh's dad, ron cummings, and you look at him here emotionally distraught, and emotional since day one, and could he have really known more than he is saying about his daughter's disappearance? >> i just want my child back. >> we just want somebody to see her to, find her. >> i want my child back so bad. i would give them everything i own. all i want is my child. >> again, stunning developments, and here to talk about it is marlaina schiavo, the producer from the "nancy grace show" and been in the home where haleigh went missing, and also was is jane velez-mitchell. and also, jane, you spoke the

ron allen has been following this story since the first word of possible loss of life and miners trapped underground. >> reporter: it is difficult to tell exactly what has happened. an explosion in a coal mine can be a difficult and deathly situation. 21 miners are unaccounted for. a mine run by the performance coal company. the explosion happened around 3:30 eastern time. emergency crews and state investigators are racing to the scene to figure out exactly what has happened. families of the miners are also certainly hoping for the best possible news and fearing the worst and gathering for word about the situation. coal mines like this one in west virginia tend to be in close-nit communities where generations of families have worked the mines. it is unknown exactly how many are trapped, how many may be injured and how many may have perished in what is described as an explosion in a coal mine in west virginia. 21 unaccounted for. >> ron allen on this still breaking story. ron, thanks. >>> the transportation department announced today it is hitting toyota with a fine for failing to report

attorney ron machen. donald gates spent 28 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. he's been free since late last year after d.n.a. evidence proved he wasn't the man who raped and shot a georgetown university student in 1981. gates was convicted in part on the testimony of an f.b.i. agent who claimed hair found on the body of the victim was an exact match to gates, evidence that turned out to be untrue. >> but i do think it's very, very important that we take a look at the testimony. there's testimony that's also at issue in that case. and to see what sort of impact that testimony could have had on various cases in the past. we put together a task force that is looking at all the potential cases where those examiners whose testimony has been called into question may have testified. >> reporter: machen has been on the job for six weeks, a job he's wanted since the late '90s. one of his goals, he says, will be to work a little harder on solving cold cases. >> cold cases are critical because i think when you solve a cold case, you really send a message that as a prosec

>> ron dempsey is dead. ♪ >> jimmy: who is ron dempsey? ] >> he always wanted something like this. >> jimmy: there are other people on the floor. >> other people? wow! we should refer to them as "the people who aren't us." [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. we should. these other -- these people who aren't us, they're animals. they killed higgins. they killed ron. >> my son. they took my son! jeff! jeff! jeff! [ laughter ] >> the people who aren't us didn't kill ron. ♪ i did. >> why -- why would you do it? >> everything happens for a reason. >> really? this happened for a reason, huh? why is this happening? why is this happening? why do you want to stay on this floor?! >> because a miracle happened to me here. ♪ >> what happened to you when our elevator landed here? ♪ [ applause ] >> steve: we need to talk. it's about the hat. we're known as the pompadours. if people don't see our luxurious feathery hair. we're never going to make it in the big time. >> come on, man. take the hat off. >> steve: take off the hat. ♪ [ laughter ] >> what have

it's a real serious question of materiality here. >> ron, what's your question? >> i think he raised a good question in his own statement -- >> you mean brad sherman? >> correct. the s.e.c.'s complaint is a story. it represents the strongest kay the s.e.c. has. whether it's a balanced story, we don't know yet. we have to wait for the facts to unfold. i'm curious to see what notes it has in the research. yes, paulson had an influence, but i don't know yet. i'd like to understand the research that aca conducted. >> aca, who went long about a billion. >> yes, they were the largest. >> of this product. they have a pretty good reputation in the past, at least at that point in early 2007, but i just don't get this. the complaint we put on the board, the various stages and processes of the discussions rye wouldn't goldman want to reveal that? what is the motive for not revealing that? >> could they presume it wasn't as material as we think it is now? that's why on some level step 1 it to look at the research, their notes internally to understand what influence it had on

i want to start with ron. president clinton i think said something here very important.ospherics right now it seems to me are toxic, they're hateful. you hear similar language all the way over to the far right, all the way over to the center right where it's the tea people or the tea bag people or the militia people or just conservative politicians, they're all using the language of delegitimatization, this is an unamerican administration. it all rhymes with, he shouldn't be there. >> well it's easy to ridicule these people and god knows they deserve ridicule, they're fools most of them. talking about gangster government or totalitarianism. this is a totalitarian government now. maybe michelle bachman should take a trip to the soviet union with todd aiken. >> explain your joke, there's no more soviet union. >> but as bill clinton pointed out, there's something very dangerous going on here. you've got 330 million people in the country and some of them are dilutional. and when you use words like gangster or totalitarianism, or let's take them out, that's another phraseolog

. >>> and the man beloved by the country's libertarians, ron paul joins me on the set to talk about the tea parties and their future. what a get he is tonight. >>> i'll finish with a thought on how negative political advertising, attack ads, if you will, work to depress democracy. not a great thing to be doing in america these days. we start with the senate race up in pennsylvania. joining me right now is senator arlen specter. senator specter, thank you for coming on tonight. i want you to talk about your tv ad running in pennsylvania right now. here's the ad, we're going to run it free for you. i want you to respond to why you're running it right now. here it is. let's listen. >> joe sestak. releeved of duty in the navy for creating a poor command climate. joe sestak, the worst attendance of any pennsylvania congressman. and near the bottom of the entire congress. last year alone, sestak missed 127 votes. he says the missed votes weren't important. he went campaigning instead. let's say no to no-show joe. >> and here's part of a web video your campaign put out last summer, let's watch

>> ron mott starting us off in west virginia. it's tough to watch. amid the sadness, some anger is starting to emerge in the community surrounding this mine. about the company that runs it and the way it's run. it's tempered by a need for jobs in a company town. tom costello has that angle of this story for us tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. every day of this explosion the company was cited again for safety violations at the mine. this is a company county, in fact. a lot of people here are reluctant to speak out against the employer, but today some started talking about what they think are questionable safety practices. 30,000 people in west virginia make their living off coal. with more than 2 dozen dead, some veteran miners who work for massey energy say they believe the company's lax approach to safety led to the tragedy at the big branch mine. >> coal first, safety last. that's how a lot of guys feel. >> reporter: they fear retribution if they show their faces, but claim the largest energy company in central appelachia isn't a

ron matz, wjz eyewitness news. >> right there. high five, ron. high five.hat was great. >>> well, chris doddson is a technology teacher at ken wood high school. anthony spencer is an i.t. manager for the government in washington. both men bowl about three times a week. >> that's a good story. >>> now it's time for breaking news in sky eye chopper 13. >> reporter: we have an accident with rescue, vic. this is north avenue and warwick avenue. north of warwick. just outside of compton college, as you can see, several vehicles involved. but this vehicle right here, at the whole front end is collapsed. there are at least two people trapped inside that we know of at this point. they requested a full rescue assignment and additional medical units. and as you can see, baltimore police are going to completely close this intersection at warwick and north just outside. compton college. we'll stay on the scene and keep you updated as the situation dictates. but looks like it's going to be a while. north avenue will be blocked up. >>> still to come tonight on wjz eyewit

don, back to you. >> thank you, ron. the session ends attained might to tight -- at midnight tonight. >>> a teen faces murder charges over a stabbing from the weekend. he stabbed an 18-year-old saturday. the man stabs was in critical condition at shock trauma and he's also facing weapons charges and they're looking for someone who fled the scene. >>> the baltimore city police have extra patrols in waverly. the most recent happened where a 22-year-old was shot and killed saturday. last thursday, a robber gunned down a 72-year-old outside of a carry out. the police can't solve this problem alone, he's asking for residents for their help. >> i would encourage everyone else, stop your talking. find something to do. find something positive to do. that's how we'll change this city. >> the police urge anyone with information to give them a call. >>> leaders are in washington, d.c. today. the goal is to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. recover here's kathryn brown. >> reporter: president obama is ready to lea

nbc's ron mott jones us now from oklahoma city. ron, that was the moment of silence we saw earlier.w? >> hi there, tamron. good day to you. the 168 seconds of sill en, very powerful moment, 15th anniversary commemoration service. they have just wrapped with the most powerful part of the ceremony each year, that is the reading of the 168 names by friends and family members who died in the murrah building 15 years ago. hard to believe it was 15 years. one speaker, secretary janet napolitano talked about her time as u.s. attorney in arizona when the bombing took place, the role she played in the investigation that followed, then she became the attorney general of arizona and now the governor and now secretary of homeland security department which was not even in place when this bombing took place. part of her speech she talked about the need for americans, not just governments to be vigilant and resilient about seeing something and saying something about what you see so we can ferret out attacks like this planned by timothy mcveigh and co-conspirators 15 years ago. president clinton ta

she got on the phone and called ron machen, the new u.s.orney on the job for just about a month. >> that was a devastating time. he felt terrible because i understand the emotion of that moment and how tragic the loss is. i talked to her for a few minutes. i then went to help. i went out to the scene. >> reporter: ron machen is no stranger to the streets. at one time he prosecuted homicide cases in the office he now heads. >> whenever you have a loss of life, especially a loss of life with young folks like this, you just feel terrible. and my my condolences go out to the victims and their families. >> reporter: in the hours after the mass shooting as the facts started strickling out, some community members very publicly as well a some police officers very privately were pointing fingers saying the drive-by wouldn't have happened if they had just signed a warrant for the arrest of orlando carter. they felt she had enough evidence to charge carter with the murder of gordon howe who was gunned down. but the u.s. attorney's office saw it differ

in just a bit we'll get republican texas congressman ron paul on this program. we'll ask him for his take on the tea party movement. and plus, wait until you see where congressman paul placed in a hypothetical matchup against president obama for 2012. >>> brand new weekly numbers painting an ugly picture of the job market right now. the labor department reporting unexpected spike in unemployment. 484,000 people filing first time claims last week, meaning, seeking unemployment benefits. and that is the second straight week of rising jobless numbers. james rosen live in washington. james, they want, the obama administration and the country wants these numbers to be going into the other direction. any word from the administration why they see this surge in the new claims in the past couple weeks? >> reporter: the labor department, megyn, which puts out these numbers claims the spike owes its part to seasonal adjustments based on easter and cesar chavez day only formally observed in california. bottom line the american job market remains very tough. let's break the

ron getner is with us, and a former s.e.c. enforcement attorney larry mcdonald is with us and a former vice president of distressed debt at lehman brothers. his book is "a colossal failure of common sense." gentlemen, it is great to have you on the program. >> happy friday to you, maria. >> you, as well. larry, what are you hearing about these accounting methods that you wrote about in your book? >> yes, what i am hearing about in recent days and several weeks that the s.e.c. and the fbi, and the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of manhattan have been sitting down with key lehman accounting people, and i have spoken to the people, and the s.e.c. are getting close and you will see action soon, and they are focused not only on repo 105 and the other methods that i talk about in my book. >> and some say that the accounting methods are legal, and ron, from what you can tell, how common for banks to hide the assets in the balance sheets under total legal fashion? >> i don't want to use the word hide because it presum

ron comes home, and he doesn't even seem to -- he seems to know haleigh is already dead.e doesn't have any behaviors that show he believes she's alive. so i believe he knew already what was going on. so that's i think why the police are bringing him in to talk to him, to update him. they're letting him know, we've got more information, people are starting to talk now, ron, they're starting to talk now, ron. >> to terry shoemaker, ronald cummings' lawyer, you know, i remember ronald being hysterical on that 911 phone call. and tell me if i'm wrong. but that phone call wasn't made until he got home. and we heard misty's voice. but didn't he force her to make that call? >> yes. she didn't make any calls until either she saw him pulling in the driveway or until he actually started coming in the house. and he confronted her and started asking her what was going on. >> right. that's what i thought. kalen in canada. hi, kalen from canada. your question. >> caller: hi, jean. thanks for taking my call. >> mm-hmm. >> caller: i just want to say my boyfriend richard and i have been f

nbc's ron mott is in new orleans this morning. ron, what are they doing to try to stem the tide of this massive oil spill? >> reporter: hey there good morning. you can see the agitated lake pontchartrain behind me. officials off the gulf trying to scoop up all that oil have their work cut out for them today. probably are dealing with six to seven-foot swells down there. they're trying to shut off a valve on the seafloor, 5,000 feet below the surface of the water. they're using remote-controlled submersibles. they can't get the valve shut off, we're perhaps looking at months before they can plug the oil leak. the plan b is to drill a second hole, relief well, where they will go down 18,000 feet into that oil seam to try to then draw that oil out of the second hole to releave the pressure on hole that's leaking right now. so it's a delicate process. it's a time consuming process. today is a big day. they hope to have answers whether they can get that valve shut off today. >> ron mott in new orleans for thus morning. thank you, ron.

that is ron paul, his son, kirkesh and the one in mexico. i think they have our country's best interest in mind. if we really want to repair our federal government, we have to start paying attention across state lines and left -- and elect the candidates that really represent the constitution. host: michele on the democratic line, good morning. what do you think? are you making political donations? caller: this will be the first time that i believe that i will make contributions. i am unemployed. it will be hard. but think that i will. i feel that finally, and i agree with the caller from california. we have someone in office who does care about the people. i think the political atmosphere is very complicated, and has a grilling countered a lot of things that were supposed to be done. the economic problems we have been having, but i think president obama is doing a great job. he is working hard. he is the hardest working president i have seen since i have followed politics. i think that is because of all the complications we have. host: let

that the accounting practices of companies had gotten so out of whack that you had a company liken ron that was essentially booking all these profits, driving up their stock really high, sews sews -- c.e.o.'s were making these gazillion dollar bonuses, but it turned out when you actually got in there and looked at what they were doing, they were building a house of cards. it was manufacturing profits out of thin air. so the concern was, how do we make sure that c.e.o.'s and their boards of directors are more accountable to the reporting that they are doing so that investors, shareholders, the market, customers, suppliers, and employees -- a lot of whom had gotten tricked into putting all their savings into a company liken ron, and then it turned out that they found everything they thought they were saving went up in a cloud of smoke -- that all those folks would be protected. so the intent around sarbane had been a good idea. there have been legitimate criticisms about the fact that all sarbane is a modest cost for a big company, it can be a significant cost for a mid-sized or a small

ron christie, republican strategist.mer mayor of san francisco and former speaker of the california state assembly. you're both attorneys. let's start in that light. here's justice stevens and what he said about president obama in "the washington post." quote, obama's a very competent president to make choices for the supreme court. stooefbs said perhaps the best he said since gerald ford. i think that's irony there. let' go to ron on this. it seems to me we have not had a tradition of using the filibuster. court appointments were made where the confirmation is people, low 50s. no one said that the opinion shigs has a right to veto the appointment by denying it through filibuster. what is your thinking on that state of play right now in terms of picking a nominee and getting them confirmed? >> i think that is right, chris. i think there's only two judicial nominations in the history of the united states blocked by the filibuster and both done by the democrats. first was in 1968 that was president john's nominee for the c

ron paul is winning the straw polls, they need a ron paul candidate out there. >> it's a berry gold wateressage too. it's a get the government out of your face, get the united states out of world affairs, it's classic old time conservativism. steve, take a look at florida. we're reporting that kidick chey has endorsed marco rubio. where does it go now? >> the question is will charlie crist drop out of this race and run as an independent this year or will he drop out of this race and run as a republican in 2012 when bill nelson's seat is up? you've got polls showing him -- some polls show him barely ahead. but there isn't too much history on this stuff, but when you look at it, historically when the big-name figures leave a party in a big race and run independent, you're looking at tom dodd, marshall coleman in 1994, they start strong and end up draining votes from one party. i almost wonder if that will happen with crist. >> i don't think he's going to make it as a third party. finally, pennsylvania, hot primary up there. you rarely see a primary this hot for the senate. arlen specter, th

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her and ron had fought that day. and she told him she didn't want to babysit, and he told her yes, you are going to baby sit. >> please. all we want is my child. that's it. >> he's still hoping that if misty did know something, if she was forced to do, threatened into doing. >> would you leave your kids with somebody that's all doped up? >> wjxt is reporting two cinder blocks have been pulled during that massive search in the st. johns river. >> without a body the case against haleigh's killer may have to be built entirely on circumstantial evidence. >> misty, when she first told the story about the night haleigh went missing, she said the back door was propped open with a cinder block. >> you said your back door was wide open? >> yes. it was brick. like a brick on the floor. >> first thing i was told was that joe had killed her. >> there's so many people talking. >> i don't even know whether she was dead when she hit the water or not. >> and so few who know what they're talking about. >> what i was told by misty was

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joining us now is pulitzer prize winning reporter, ron suskind. ron, great to see you back here. thanks for coming back on the show. >> nice to be back. >> are we able to safely take care of this stuff once it's brought back to the united states? do we have the technical know-how to take care of it? >> i actually think we do. this plan of getting uranium or plutonium from around the world and saying we can house it safely here. we're a safe repository, we'll take it off your hands is a new concept to deal with this really impenetrable issue of what to do in a world that is really awash with uranium and plutonium. it's a real problem for humanity. >> how did countries like chile and ukraine get it in the first place? >> some of them have nuclear facilities, reactors. of course it's used a fuel to drive those reactors. in the case of ukraine, apparently some of these -- the uranium was in weapons that were once housed in the ukraine, soviet weapons that were then sent back to russia. you know, there's lots of ways countries end up with this stuff in their hands. but i think what yo

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here's nbc's ron allen. >> reporter: the pope's visit to malta brought him to a largely catholic nation, struggling with allegations of priests abusing young men and boys. in a private meeting, the pope confronted those emotional charges face to face. >> promise you're going to pray for me. he told me, i'm grateful to you, you have the courage to show your face. it was emotional. >> reporter: lawrence says the pope had tears in his eyes as he listened to his story of being molested repeatedly as a child by priests at an orphanage. he was one of eight men the pope met and prayed with. a vatican statement said the pope was deeply moved by their stories and expressed his shame and sorrow over what victims and their families have suffered. grets says meeting the pope restored his lost faith. >> this is an experience that's going to change my life. you know, now i can -- i believe, you know. >> pope benedict has met with victims on at least two other occasions. in australia and here in the u.s., but that was before new allegations this year that the church covered up or did nothing about kno

former massachusetts governor mitt romney barely edged out texas congressman ron paul. sarah palin and former house speaker newt gingrich each had 18% of the vote. >>> a contrite michael steele addressed the delegation last night. he admitted making mistakes and vowed to learn from them. >> i'm the first here to admit i made mistakes and it's incumbent on me to take responsibility and make necessary changes and move on. we've all had to do that from time to time. but the one mistake, the one mistake we cannot make this november is to lose. >> steele's comments drew a standing ovation in the room. they have been doinged by questi questionable spending. there have also been questions on huge spending trips and meals. all of that led top advisers to cut ties with steele and to call for his resignation. >>> protesters in thailand are refusing to back down after deadly clashes with soldiers. more than 800 people have been injured in all this. the protestors known as red shirts want the prime minister to dissolve the legislature and call new elections. they are refusing to ne

the washington xin center for politics and journalism and got to cover the washington, people like ron brown and others got to go to attend the white house events and see what the defense of washington look like. and terry's goal was to have thus become political journalists who would not be so one of ideology or another but sort of look to cut through that to say here is what the democrats say and what republicans say and introduce you to keep folks at the same time. i did some political reporting but then i got -- i gravitated away from it because not a lot of it felt real because our political leaders a lot of times i didn't know whether i was talking -- it almost didn't matter what durham was talking to records or republicans because of your body was spending. it was about the spending and not the people and on the campaign trail even when you go out into america what passed for journalism was going to a donner. during iowa caucuses as opposed to knocking on doors so that's the kind of reporting jon and i have done over the years and that's the kind of -- that is kind of where we c

thank you, ron claiborne. >>> and now president obama and the census. he has filled out his form, and every american is required by law to do it, to be counted in the census. but one section of the document has a lot of people puzzling over profound questions about race, identity and america today. here's david wright. >> reporter: identity is such a profoundly personal issue, some find the wording of the question offensive. among the 15 choices is the word negro. >> where is the box for iranian? that box doesn't exist. as an iranian, as a puerto rican and iranian, i don't consider myself white. >> reporter: as the census tries to get an accurate snapshot of the country's ethnic mix, some say a form is too blunt to capture a nuance. >> a lot of latinos feel their race does not fit into one box. they would like to represent their different mixtures in a way that feels appropriate to them. >> reporter: to confuse matters even more, the 2010 census says it does not consider hispanic origins a race. according to the most recent nationwide survey, roughly 74

you've got ron cummings in the back seat riding along. liz, do you have the sound that goes with that? yes, no, maybe. liz, do you have the sound? okay. pump it up so we can hear it. she's counting out the drugs. >> i'm not an accountant. >> oh, man. five minutes. >> she looks like she's high as a kite right there. >> hi. i'm in the car with him. where do you want me to meet you? you want me to just go to my house? yeah, i'll go to -- >> oh, lord, please don't let -- >> no, don't do that. >> so this other dude, you -- >> he's got what? >> 20 of them. >> 20 of them. so 20 times five would be -- >> 25. >> let's -- i'll call my brother-in-law, see how much time before they're planning on going. going to do like last time, drop them at -- >> i'm mobile. >> yeah. >> so art harris, her denying this over and over to her father, she's on video. we're about to show you more. my point is if she's so convincing, crying and anguished, that she didn't sell dope, what about her denial she had anything to do with misty's disappearance? excuse me, with h

nbc's ron allen is here now.we live in new york city, so to give people perspective, this child is left in one of the busiest places you could wander into. >> at a church by a woman, taken in by the police in the rectory. he's okay, in the hands of the new york city police who are taking care of him. the note was for a police detective in florida. the mother is in jail for counterfeiting with a boyfriend. they tried to pawn a $100 that was phony. the clerk got suspicious, alerted police and they found $5,000 in counterfeit money in the mom's car back in florida. she apparently had put the child in the custody of a friend, who had two children in florida. they apparently drove to new york. it's suspected that those are the two people who dropped the boy off at st. patrick's. crazy story. those two, by the way, are also wanted in the counterfeiting case back in florida. >> now that the boy is safe, where is he now? >> he's in the hands of youth services here in new york. i imagine at a hospital or foster home being