who are these people, ron? >> the other thing i want to add to that is that in our culture today, it seems like when a woman gets pregnant, that there's a sense that it's a curse instead of a blessing. and our witness there is -- part of our purpose is to educate people and try to get them to understand that this truly is a gift from god and that we should respect that and have these babies come into our society and not kill them. >> and you bring that up, i'm thinking you or some people who go by, may be feeling differently, feel you might be looking for a fight. how do you handle that? >> we get a lot of challenges, for sure, but my response, i always try to listen. i try to say thank you, god bless you, and just ignore the negative part of it, because we're not there to be in an argument or debate or anything like that. we're there just to spread the good news that life is something to be cherished and not to be killed. >> we're talking about 40 days for life. it's www.40daysforlife.com. find out all the inf

you have not even told you what ron's define there. ron's been a painter. he quickly established himself as a hardworking crew member and spending time with the striping cruise including understanding the operation of the except and how the crisis function pr he was elevated to be a leader in 2005 and since then he's developed into the shops more reliable workers. he's been an important asset with particularly with training of new painter which is not just the technical operation of the vehicles and except and make sure the paint goes bound in the right way and stays there are by also the safety. the cruise are working identity in the midst of traffic. they have equipment that has it's on complexity and he's done is great job of coordinating the traffic flow and to insure first and foremost 3 everybody's operating safely. among the things that the crew does it maintenance and install the bike lanes. a few years back they've been busy with that arrest every time we may have a street that are part of a bond for new bike lanes these guys are right behind the p

to ron's point, you asked him how could they think this way? they're not concerned with the real world with expertise, with better measuring costs and benefits because they think they're above it. they don't pay the costs. this is all a giant lab experiment for them, and they know better than the intelligence people. they know better than the foreign -- >> it's such a stupid answer. the admiral, not a bad guy, didn't want to attack us at pearl harbor. he would have said, you know, if it had stopped at pearl harbor, it would have been a pretty good war for us. what a stupid thing to say from the time we arrived in baghdad, the war was over. no, it just began. your last thought, ron? >> look, what david says is just right. they ran an experiment on the whole globe and it failed. and at this point that's why you have truth and reconciliation commissions. get the truth out so we can have some reconciliation before these guys leave the stage. >> thank you. i think that's a great eye tea. i wouldn't mind some water barreding along the way get some in

can you fop that, ron? >> i cannot top that.ns for the day but we'll try. >>> good morning, everyone. in the news, rescuers are calling off the search for a man swallowed when a sinkhole appeared under his home in florida of the man is now presumed dead and neighboring homes are being threatened by that growing sinkhole. >>> cardinals from around the world are still arriving at the vatican in rome in preparation to choose a new pope. they will begin their meetings tomorrow. they'll set a date for the secret conclave, the process by which a successor to pope ben dit will be sdlekted. >>> street protests and john kerry held metings with egyptian leaders in cairo and demonstrators set fire to pictures of kerry and demanded he leave the country. >>> finally something for the royal baby watchers. new photos today of duchess kate with barely a hint of her baby bump, william and kate join prince harry as the three royals attended a friend's wedding in the swiss alps. all three were seen holding court, no pun intended with guests and st

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he accused ron spriding bs. he told the source to stop e-mailing him and any feture emaims will - e-mails will be pub blisherable. i spoke to ron earlier and asked how al relationship with a white house official deteriorated to the point he had to cut thai ties? >> it was a combination of things, i felt like the person trying too hard to intimidate me and my reporters when i was editor in chief of the national journal. there no relationship of give or take. it was all combat and trying to explain why i was stupid and why i was wrong and why can'tip see the president as great as this person could. i was not getting anything out of it except for a headache and a waste of time. other reporters might have a hard deeming with that . i just didn't think it why should i be tangled up in this. it was something i never done before. if you want to call me anymore or e-mail me, behave yourselfivering is now on the record. >> did he respond to you? >> no. >> you have not gotten a response? >> no. bob who is a ledgindary was

he describes very simply what ron just said.e called it a hoax, and when you sell a hoax you've got two things. you've got to want it to happen and you have to believe it a little bit and you have to have somewhat of a psychological imperative and maybe a psychotic personality to make it work. >> you're thought, ron? >> you know, when you have a big lie, you've got to have a big denial to follow it and the denial's got to be resilient. one of this size is the type that people go to the grave with, and it's hard to watch cheney, and the whole gang of neocons smiling at the camera saying now what do we do? next syria, next iran because the fundamental principle of this whole gang is one they still believe in preemptive war that the united states is the lone super power in the world and has a right to invade any country for any reason we decide. we don't even have to give the reason. that's the notion of preemptive war and they thought iraq would be a demonstration model and of course, it's a demonstration model of the very opposit

ron? >> thank you for that. >>> osama bin laden's son-in-law will remain behind bars in new york city. sulaiman abu ghaith pleaded not guilt in federal court of charges of conspireing to kill americans. he's already provided important new intelligence about the terror group. no date set for his trial. >>> and former on limpilympic h oscar pistorius could face a civil suit. he shot and killed his model girlfriend on his home on valentine's day. he's been charged with premeditated murder. he says it was an accident. >>> south dakota is the first state with a law to allow teachers to carry guns in classrooms. each district will decide now if their teachers can be armed at school. several other states allow them to carry weapons. >>> whole foods will become the first national grocery chain to have all gentlemen netly modified foods to be labeled. the labels must be in place within the next five years. the fda says there's no difference between organic and genetically modified foods. >>> while

ron sloan for invesco. welcome back. >> thank you, scott. >> a lot of people here, hey, i haven't been this bull niche a decade, that must be the sign of a top. >> well, i hope you're not right. but i think what we're focusing on is the environment for capital spending. and, you know, we have had cap x as a percent of revenue in a decline for a decade and outside of a few brief periods, we have been in basically u.s. equity net outflows. and so, i think we're seeing a much, much, much better capital spending environment. companies are -- we were at several industrial conferences earlier this year. the companies are notely more optimistic going forward with cap x dollars and this is part of, you know, a friend of mine used a quote, his favorite emerging market is the middle market or middle america. and i think, you know, the fact that this is an economic recovery led by manufacturing, led by export, driven manufacturing in particular, and that shaz shrunk as a percent of gdp means that manufacturing doesn't

ron, we appreciate it. thank you, ron. >>> now, we're going to check in with someone who was missing yesterday. >> we missed ginger. >>> i did find some hail where i was. the theme of this weather cast. this is latest member of our extreme team. riley summers. he's only 13 years old. we did have hail and 79 severe weather reports yesterday. still happening in southeast oklahoma this morning. that cold front will continue to push to the south and east. here are the cities involved with severe weather today. austin, houston, dallas. big areas. now, easter is going to be pretty pleasant in the northeast for the most part. a low will move up from the south bringing rain late in the day. 56 the high today in new york. portland, a mild 52. where it's not mild is where the cold air is. pouring in. early tomorrow morning, 10 in duluth. 22 chicago. that's the big picture. >> i was just on assignment in nepal. i wasn't there for storm chasing. we got hail. i found hail. i was very excited about that. every morning wa

ron? >> muhammad lila, thanks for that. >>> osama bin laden's son-in-law will remain behind bars in new york city. sulaiman abu ghaith, a former al qaeda spokesman, pleaded not guilty in federal court of -- on charges of conspiring to kill americans. he's already provided important new intelligence about the terror group. no date set for his trial. >>> and former olympic hero oscar pistorius could be facing more legal trouble soon. the lawyer for the family of model reeva steenkamp is considering a civil suit. he shot and killed his model girlfriend in his home on valentine's day. he's been charged with premeditated murder. he says it was an accident. >>> south dakota is the first state with a law to allow teachers to carry guns in classrooms. the bill was signed into law on friday. each district will decide now if their teachers can be armed at school. several other states have laws allowing teachers to carry weapons but none has a law specifically authorizing them to do so. >>> whole foo

>> thank you, ron. humble and modest indeed. >>> we'll have complete coverage of the installation of pope francis on tuesday here at abc. >>> now, to a new round of nasty winter weather moving in to the midwest from the rockies. parts of 18 states are on alert for snow and ice. even a blizzard watch for part of minnesota. ginger zee is here with the latest. winter does not want to go away. >> reporter: everybody keeps saying, what was that groundhog talking about? i told you not to listen to him. just saying. blizzard watches not only for parts of minnesota but also aberdeen there, south dakota, you can really see the winter storm warnings and watches popping up. that storm just getting going. there's a little bit here from st. louis to cincinnati, and even in parts of pittsburgh, so let's talk about what's going to happen. it's actually two different storms that will meld together, one will drop out of the rockies it gets together with the one from the south. and for the coastal parts of new york, wash

and we would like to thank ron and jim. as you said my name is mark barton and this is my wife jackie. we have three children. james is 12, natalie is eleven and daniel 7. three months ago today on december 14th, i held his little hand as we walked to the bus. i kissed him good-bye. for as you know, will be the last time. daniel as any parent will tell you that their child is special, but what was special about daniel is his kindness. he had a very unique compassionate part of his person. if you noticed the classmate sitting alone, he would ask the teacher to be excused to go and comfort that classmate. his cousins were moved by this to the point where they wanted to set up a facebook site to honor his kindness, they call it what would daniel do, wwdd. this tech effort, that you guys are doing, is something that daniel would do. this is what daniel would do. he would look into his heart and try to fix things and we can't tell you how much or how deeply it touches us that you are looking into your hearts, taking your time an

thanks. >>> now to ron claiborne for a look at the other stories. what?, that is not the worst first date ever. >> oh. >> for the record. i will say no more than that. good morning, america. in the news, america, the democrat controlled senate pushed through its first budget in four years early this morning after pulling an all-nighter. it calls for tax increases and budget cuts and sets up a showdown with the gop that majority house which passed a different plan. >>> faa is closing 149 air traffic control towers at small airports around the country. the closures part of those automatic budget cuts that went into effect march 1st. it will not force any airports to shut down. >>> one pilot didn't need a control tower making an emergency landing in san diego. he managed to put his plane down on a highway after experiencing engine thoubl. it only shut down one lane of traffic. >>> finally, the miami heat have extended the second longest winning streak in nba history. the heat won their 25th straight game last night knocking off the pistons of detroit. probab

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i'm back with ron insana and rick santelli. ron insana, we for you on earnings, we're hear debating the quality of earnings that we're seeing and what we are going to see in 2013. what's your take on what things look like, based on what you've seen so far? >> well, actually, maria, when i look at the earnings, people are worried about what's going on in china, i think, and this is kind of an evolution of the concept we've been talking about, with dawn of the american decade, i think to fortress america. when you look at earnings, the strength is coming from the united states. when you look at the flows of funds, money is coming here with every little hiccup in the world, whether it's cyprus, the broader picture in europe, the u.s. is doing remarkably well. so i think domestic earnings are going to look very, very good. there might be some shaving at the margins when you look at weakness overseas, but i think the u.s. is almost becoming immune to external shocks, and now the place where money will flow to, going forward on a reg

ron is not a reliable source. can't say you will make your numbers for the year and drop a billion and $4 billion later in sales. >> wall street analysts following retailers analyst. oppenheimer and citi both down. both saying they are believers in the long run but tle have short terms including losing some of the martha stewart product. martha stewart was on the "today" show before her show. stewart wants the ability to sell branded products in the categories in question at both retailers. >> ron is a visionary. he is trying to reimagine the retail landscape. and that's a big job. and he has not been given any time at all to do so. you know, it takes some time to rebuild a jc penney. >> calling johnson a visionary on the stand saying it is exciting, it's awe inspiring and as we can see, a very difficult thing to do, go through this transition. >> okay, let's also bring in jessica from merchants forecaster and jan any offen. jessica, welcome to the show. >> thank. >> would you side more with martha stewart or ques

ron, we appreciate it. thank you, ron. >>> now, we're going to check in with someone who was missing yesterday. >> we missed you, ginger. >> thank you. i was on assignment, too. i wasn't skipping out. i did find some hail where i was, hail is the theme of this weathercast. this is latest member of our extreme team. riley summers, he's only 13 years old. his mother kept saying, you get the camera. and dad said, get away from windows. dad's right. stay safe, but thank you for the video. we did have hail and 79 severe weather reports yesterday. still happening in southeast oklahoma this morning. that cold front will continue to push to the south and east. here are the cities that are going to be involved with severe weather today. san antonio, austin, houston, dallas, big areas. something to keep a lookout for. as we go through later morning hours and afternoon and evening. now, easter is going to be pretty pleasant here in the northeast for the most part. a little low will move up from the south bringing rain

time now for the weather and over to ginger zee. >> good morning, ron and everybody.we have to start out with a rocky morning in parts of south georgia and the panhandle in florida. we got a targeted area for severe weather today that includes southern georgia and north florida. look at what happens yesterday. more than 100 reports of severe weather. hail is covering the ground and the driveway there with the heavy rain flooding through. on top of the severe weather the northern side is a this cold and snow. indianapolis is right in there that six-plus category. the mountains of west virginia, by the time it gets over to the coast, a mix of wet snow and rain, especially for the big coastal cities. we'll be watching that tonight and tomorrow. new york city, stays in the 40s for the most part. we're below average here. a look across the nation. for now, that's the big picture. >> this weather report has been brought to you by del monte. >> don't smile like you're off the hook, ginger. apparently, you had a little adventure of late. >> bianna was a cowgirl which was very

he describes very simply what ron just said.e called it a hoax, and when you sell a hoax you've got two things. you've got to want it to happen and you have to believe it a little bit and you have to have somewhat of a psychological imperative and maybe a psychotic personality to make it work. >> you're thought, ron? >> you know, when you have a big lie, you've got to have a big denial to follow it and the denial's got to be resilient. one of this size is the type that people go to the grave with, and it's hard to watch cheney, and the whole gang of neocons smiling at the camera saying now what do we do? next syria, next iran because the fundamental principle of this whole gang is one they still believe in preemptive war that the united states is the lone super power in the world and has a right to invade any country for any reason we decide. we don't even have to give the reason. that's the notion of preemptive war and they thought iraq would be a demonstration model and of course, it's a demonstration model of the very opposit

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my friend. >> all right, ron.hank you. >>> we'll turn to the case that has literally ripped a family apart. parties are suing walmart after the store falsely accused them of taking pornographic pictures of their daughters that were actually just fun, innocent bathtime photos. the couple wound up losing custody of their kids and say the mix-up has made their life a nightmare. abc's tanya rivero has that story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the demarees are hoping their four-year legal with walmart after unimaginable accusations will be finally resolved by an appeals court in the weeks ahead and they can get their lives back on track. overnight walmart tells abc news its employees did the right thing when they reported anthony and lisa demaree to the authorities over these and other bathtime photos of their three daughters fearing the images were pornographic. in a statement the retail giant says, "we believe our associates acted appropriately in notifying authorities, who then decided whether to investig

let's go back to ron with more. hey, ron. >> reporter: good morning to you, dan. at this moment, the pope is l d leading the sunday service, a prayer service and a blessing. the crowd here is really swollen. we're talking tens of thousands. pretty close to the 100,000 that was estimated last wednesday when the pope was first announced and appeared on the bah colony of the basilica behind me. the popularity in four days of this new pope, pope francis. popularity of the simplicity, rejection of the trappings, the regal trappings some would say of the papacy, much more down to earth pope as we have seen a few days into his papacy. he was out in an impromptu greeting of the people greeting outside of that church, after the service, one by one, he shook hands, blessed the attendees of that service as they came out, a longtime rome bureau chief said that she had not seen anything like this in the many years of covering the pope that it was unheard of. further evidence that this new pope tends to be much more informal, much more accessible and much more humble than popes

you have rand paul out there supported by ron weiden on this case.but forcing a debate. i would have loved to hear what he said if he had given the same speech about president bush. >> i think that raises a good point. there is a huge difference between ron widen and rand paul. rand paul is stark raving mad. and they are talking about the same subject and it is perfectly reasonable to give a standing ovation to ron widen and to sit on your hands when the crazy man speaks. stand up for rand. stand with rand. perfectly reasonable not to stand with rand and to give a standing ovation with him. >> but then again, if ron widen isn't standing to his credit he was on the floor. one second the guy talked for 13 hours. do you think there is more than 14 minutes of actual contact in that that psychopath said on the senate floor. if you want to stand with rand, do you want to stand with all of the vile spewing madness that came out of that crazy person's mouth or do you want to stand with 15 minutes of it. that is your choice. so it is -- if you want to choose

with that, i would like to introduce ron con way. >> thank you. i want to first recognize the families in the front row. we have three families from sandy hook itself, families who lost children, in the tragedy. and then, we also have three local families. and all of you are national heroes. and instead of being bitter, after you lost your children, you are taking action to make the world a better place. you are national heroes. i am new to this issue. i became friends with gabby giffords last year, my good friend, larine jobs introduced me to gabby and mark and we instantly became friends. my wife and i started doing work on gabby and mark's effort which was then the institute for civil discourse but has now converted to being more active on the violence issues in america. because we are friends, i invited mark and gabby to our home for our holiday party, which coincidentally was on december 14th. when gabby arrived at my home and in my home that night, were literally the leaders of all of the great tech companies in the bay area. and we had our

good luck the next round. >> thanks, ron. >>> well, we turn now to a freak accident. an airport in alabama. a young boy was killed and four others were injured when they were pinned under a huge sign weighing hundreds of pounds. no one seems sure how this happened. abc's ty hernandez has the story. good morning, ty. >> reporter: a terrible story. the burset family was on their way home from a florida beach getaway when the accident happened. this morning they are still in birmingham praying for their mom heather burset, and they are mourning the loss of 10-year-old luke. stunned fellow travelers rushed to the aid of heather burset and four of her children pinned beneath this 300-pound flight status board at birmingham shuttleworth airport on friday. after the display, which took seven men to lift back up toppled over. its frayed wires yanked straight from the wall. >> you heard a lot of screams and a lot of people running. mostly you heard screams from the victims. the mother was in shock. the kids were crying. >> reporter: rescue workers quickly transported the famil

ron, and nia, i was watching boehner. he was clapping through half of that they deserve a vote, then start to listen to it and sat down. i don't know. >> well, he said, you know, they'll take a look at it. and that doesn't sound like he would bring something to the floor. of course, it would be his decision and cantor's decision. it would have to possibly go through some committees. >> why don't they want a vote? if you're a gun toting nra member, wouldn't you want to get out there with great pride and brio vote against gun control and screw all the other guys by making them vote for it, nail them in their districts? why wouldn't they want to vote? wouldn't they want to be proudly pro gun and make the other guys unproudly anti-gun? wouldn't they want the vote? i don't get this part. >> you would think so, but we do get back to that nearly 90% of the american public wants universal background checks. they can read those polls. they know that. it's more complicated than that. there are people on the democratic side who also

and we would like to thank ron and jim.you said my name is mark barton and this is my wife jackie. we have three children. james is 12, natalie is eleven and daniel 7. three months ago today on december 14th, i held his little hand as we walked to the bus. i kissed him good-bye. for as you know, will be the last time. daniel as any parent will tell you that their child is special, but what was special about daniel is his kindness. he had a very unique compassionate part of his person. if you noticed the classmate sitting alone, he would ask the

ron, and nia, i was watching boehner. he was clapping through half of that they deserve a vote, then start to listen to it and sat down. i don't know. >> well, he said, you know, they'll take a look at it. and that doesn't sound like he would bring something to the floor. of course, it would be his decision and cantor's decision. it would have to possibly go through some committees. >> why don't they want a vote? if you're a gun toting nra member, wouldn't you want to get out there with great pride and brio vote against gun control and screw all the other guys by making them vote for it, nail them in their districts? why wouldn't they want to vote? wouldn't they want to be proudly pro gun and make the other guys unproudly anti-gun? wouldn't they want the vote? i don't get this part. >> you would think so, but we do get back to that nearly 90% of the american public wants universal background checks. they can read those polls. they know that. it's more complicated than that. there are people on the democratic side who also

we'll see. >> how do you think it plays, ron reagan, relative to marco rubio?f a sudden the attention being focused on illegal immigration, they're both from the same state. what is rubio's reaction to this? >> well, i think marco rubio's probably chuckling a little bit to himself because, again, on a low-hanging fruit sort of issue like immigration, jeb bush seems to have kind of done a romney. can anybody describe what his actual position on immigration is at this point? is it his book? is it what he said before? is it what he's saying now, whatever that is? you know, it's a little confusing, isn't it? >> just the fact he's publishing a book at this time seems like it's painting by numbers, the first thing you do when you're getting ready. thank you, michael steele. thank you, ron reagan, as always. we'll be back right after this. oh this is soft. this is so so soft. hey hun, remember you only need a few sheets. hmph! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra soft is so soft you'll have to remind your family they can use less. ♪ charmin ultra soft is made with extra

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sharply curtailing this aggression that america has practiced around the world so i think you know ron paul and i have been able to demonstrate this capacity of creating new possibilities and frankly since the two parties continue to fail to address america's economic problems i think that the american people increasingly will be looking towards alternatives as we move towards a future i call it the two party dictatorship congressman let's talk about civil liberties which is something that you have been very vocal about in your entire term rand paul i'm sorry epic his epic filibuster not really supported by a single democrat i mean how is it that drones and due process are a partisan issue now well they shouldn't be and what happens in washington is that whatever party holds the white house their supporters in congress try to protect the president of their party but the president isn't just a. as in both parties president of united states and members of congress are just partisan participants in the process they are united states congress persons and what we have to remember is that bo

was ron crazy? he is often seen that way, and he did have concerns that he expressed about his own mental health. he actually wrote to the veteran's administration for some assistance, and for some kind of psychology assistance. we don't have any record that he ever got that. many people have given me the diagnoses. some professionals have weighed in with the terms like malignant are narcissism, paranoid schizophrenia. if you look at his behavior and his thinking, he does show signs of a lot of these things. but his -- i think nobody in history has ever mapped his own mentality as carefully as him. meticulously examining every detail just as a writer. here we are in our bookstore, i have to take my hat off to him. he hold a guinness book of world records he published more than a thousand title titles. he continuously wrote. he wrote about the own entire your journey. that is what scientology really is. when you enter the church of scientology. it's like a breadcrumb trail in to his mind. the further

ron. >> look, it's an aspiration we honored in the ron ahead reagan age.only been balanced three or four years since 1969. and we blew that up with the medicare prescription drug benefit. from an economic point of view, economists focus on stabilize the debt as a share of the overall economy, so the debt is not growing faster than the economy. the realistic goal that both sides are pointing at now. >> maria. >> i sleetly agree with ron. it is an i hadisticly a good idea. i completely agree with the president, but instead of doing it just for the sake of doing it. you look at a family and things that families need to get done, and a family in debt, they could balance their budget in a minute if they decide not to send their kids to college or not to give their grandparents the health care they need. is that smart? absolutely not. we need to do it with the focus on the future. making sure the middle class is educated, healthy and robust. >>> ending gun violence in america through higher taxes? the idea behind a house democratic bill led by linda sanchez. it