ron allen, nbc news, paterson, new jersey. >> good note to end on. that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we're reporting tonight from our nbc news washington bureau. we'll look for you back in new york tomorrow night. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> good evening and thanks for being with us tonight. >> and i'm raj matha sgli not so fast. that's the word from state controller john chung who is holding the paychecks of california lawmakers who thought they had agreed to a new budget last week.

>> ron allen in joplin tonight. we're thinking about them every day.thanks. >>> when we come back here tonight, the hangover enjoyed by millions of americans this past weekend. >>> andy robustelli has died. the hall of famer was among the best defensive players in the history of football. he played nine years with the new york giants alongside the likes of gifford, grier, huff, and katcavage. he was a father of nine who was older than most of his teammates because of his navy service in world war ii. andy robustelli was 85 years old. >>> a big sign of the full-throated power of the movie industry this past holiday weekend. here's where your money went. "hangover 2." a big number one, despite some tepid reviews. it brought in over $105 million over the weekend, the highest weekend tally ever for a live action comedy. >>> another break. when we come back, a big favorite of ours, and we hope yours as well. every year at this time, the send-off for the class of 2011. >>> as we mentioned before the break, the time has come tonight to continue our annual tra

ron allen, thank you.e's lester. ♪ ♪ like father like son ♪ >>> now to our father's day series, like father, like son. for richard and kyle petty, it is all about family tradition and life in the fast lane. richard petty is a nascar icon and for both of them, racing is just one of the bonds that brings them together. some people call this a sport. if you're a petty, however, you call it the family business. >> in the back yard with the race car. kind of deal if we didn't run good on sunday, we didn't eat on monday. >> reporter: richard and his son, kyle, represent two of the four generations of drivers to carry the petty name. lee petty was one of the pioneers of stock car racing. richard followed in his dad's shoes and went on to become nascar's winningest driver. earning the nickname, the king. was it a foregone conclusion, you'd get into driving? >> probably. i tried to talk him into driving earlier than he'd let me. i went to him when i was 18 and he said come back when you're 21. he said, there's a ca

[applause] and have to acknowledge bishop ron allen. e. and i, this has got to work. he and i in the past have been at opposite perspectives on this, but i guarantee you we will find common ground. no doubt whatsoever. [applause] so how did i get here after spending so much time demanding drug task force is working undercover, being one of the most aggressive drug prohibition is out there in the law enforcement community? and i wish that mayor kurt schmoke, currently the dean of howard law school with you, because he was a great influence to me. being a baltimore native, when he was mayor of that city, he had the courage to step forward after being the prosecutor and the mayor, prosecutor he suffered a crime perspective as mayor he saw from a health perspective of aids in the city and hepatitis, and you've heard about that day. as a lieutenant i had the pleasure to sitting on his exchange board and i got to listen to the conversations and fellowship with him. it didn't blossom it, needed water. so i went back in to narcotics and commanding task forces on the eastern s

and i have to acknowledge bishop ron allen. this has got to work. he and i have in the past been on opposite respect to its, but i guarantee you, we will find common ground. no doubt whatsoever. [applause] so how did i get here after spending so much time to manage our task forces undercover, being one of the most aggressive drug prohibition itself they are in a law enforcement community? and i wished it mayor curt, currently the dean of howard law school is here because he was a great influence to me. being a baltimore native, when he was mayor of that city. and you know, he had the courage to step forward after being the prosecutor and mayor prosecuting from a cramped respect. as mayor sought help perspective with aids and hepatitis and you've heard about that today. as a lieutenant, i had the pleasure to sit on the exchange force and i got to listen to the conversation and fellowship with him. but when i left, after i got promoted them back into drug enforcement, it was there. the associate planet or didn't bustamante. needed some water in. so i

that you know you can't be a master and these guys are all they want to give allen a well who wants to follow you know the ron paul loose in the signs we saw going to baxley international i know you're in canada how come you were put up ron paul evolution signs in canada help spread the message. i think i gave my answer to that because i just don't think that look there's lots of alternatives i come from an annoying entrepreneurial background where if you do stuff that doesn't work for long enough at some point unlike the government you have to say let's look at what we're doing and see if we can change it there's lots of other ways of changing the world getting rid of the state rather than political action to try to put someone on the top to strip it down not going to happen too many people invested too many people second off the government teat writes not going to work but what we can do is recognize that political power is something that is kept alive by the belief of the masses and we can attack belief and we can criticise that belief we can undermine that belief horizontally don't worry about political p

allen west is going to be out here in just a minute. [applause] john boehner, eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, paul ryan, donald trump, tim pawlenty, mitt romney, herman cain, rick santorum, ronplause] >> other than that we really don't have much of a lineup for you. [laughter] but they are here, not just to preach to the choir. although there will be some of that. they are here because what we are doing in this organization and what you are doing in the grassroots is absolutely critical, not just to the outcome of the 2012 elections, but to the very future of our country. and that's why we are not just going to be hearing speeches. but we're going to be going into breakout sessions where you are going to be learning about energizing and building bridges to young voters, to hispanic voters, to nontraditional conservative voters and african-american and asian-american community, the indian american community, over performing among women voters which was a serious problem in 2008, less so in 2010. we are going to be teaching you how to engage in policy battles for the protection of the sanctity of innocent human life, for the importance of lowering taxes and rain and out of con