pleased to hear from the testimony, particularly over congressman shay. i know that he traveled to iraq and afghanistan a couple times, right? more than a few. and i just unpleased that we are doing more oversight here. obviously there is never too much oversight can be done, and in particular in this area. the u.s. military base budget for the current fiscal year is more than 500 billion, congress has appropriated roughly 830 billion for the wars in afghanistan and iraq. i can commiserate with the commission on how tough it has to be to get access to information that you need to do your work. i've been waiting for more than two months for competitive bidding information just on a small subset of 2008 defense contractor details appear to be shrouded in mystery. in fact, i look forward to the possibility of having someone who is knowledgeable about the pentagon's process, contract process appear under oath. so we can get answers to some of these questions that we wanted answers to for a long time on the competitive bidding process. and to that end, i look

shays, welcome back before the committee, great to see you. and thank you all for your great work. i have been over -- haven't been to iraq as many times as mr. shays has but a am up around a dozen now and one of my jobs before a came to congress, i spent a lot of time on construction sites. i haven't -- a construction engineering degree and i am surprised that we get as much work done in iraq and afghanistan, given the contract arrangements that we have. i have seen just horror shows. i visited a lot of construction sites. in iraq, and afghanistan. and you know, i frank think stewart bowen, the special -- former special inspector general for iraq reconstruction did a fantastic job, but from my visits to afghanistan, i think that the situation there and the inspector general in afghanistan is far less able, he's newer, his team is newer, but far less able to police the contracting situation there, so, i am very apprehensive about our ability to lose money. in afghanistan and to waste it. just through incompetence as well as through fraud. one of the earliest hearings we had in here

sarah shay struggled with prescription drug abuse and died from an overdose. >> when you lose somebodyike that, it puts a hole in your soul that something else will ever fill. >> reporter: a few miles away lynn and sam kissig are suffering their own devastating loss. their daughter, 22-year-old savannah kissig also died from abusing prescription painkillers and sedatives. >> she was full of spirit. she had a lot of spirit. she was a beautiful young girl. she could have done anything in the world. >> there is a whole generation of children that are dying because of this. >> reporter: federal officials say prescription drug abuse is a growing problem nationwide. an estimated 7 million americans abuse prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, which actually kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. authorities say the problem is particularly acute in kentucky, where 485 people died from prescription drug overdoses last year alone. in greenup county half the cases scene by coroner neil wright were drug-related. >> i would say 85% to 90% of those calls were prescription pill calls. >

i think the whiskey rebellion and shay's rebellion, inform the founders like no other.oubt that the history of the nullification document started in 1798 and moving forward was that people did go to that anti-federalist idea and borrow from it and gain -- and take from it, and i have no doubt they did. but i think that that's what led us right into the civil war, the idea that states could nullify federal law and i believe that it was not this sort of anti-communist labor fear that led to getting rid of the insurrectionary idea, i believe it was the civil war, i believe it was lincoln's powerful prose and the amount of people that were killed to say this was not an idea to be trialed with and it's not an idea we want to play with. a group of states said we don't like this, we want to keep our property. we have a property right and slavery, and they were afraid to lose that, even though they had lost that election through a democratic process, so that's what it looks like, an insurrection looks like. it looks like 600,000 americans losing their lives, so i think it's not

hope that it doesn't just gather dust and i'm very pleased that our former colleague, congressman shaysis on the panel because i thought chairman shays was one of the finest members that this committee ever had. >> joe, could you pull that microphone a little closer to you. thank you. >> i have been tremendously concerned about the horrendous waste that's been going on in the defense department and especially so after a year, year and a half ago when the gao came out with a report that said we have $250 billion cost overruns in our weapons systems. and it seems to me that anybody who considers himself or herself to be fiscally conservative should have been extremely upset or horrified by that. yet, it didn't seem that many people were. it looks as though both parties are trying to prove how patriotic they are. or concerned somebody is not patriotic that they don't give the defense department every penny that they want and then some. and now we're ramping up in afghanistan and spending an unbelievable amount of money there. and then i read in your testimony, commissioner thibault, that y

spoke too soon in stakening comparing bria's music to shay's music. i didn'mean that shsounde like he but there is romance in the music, like "love is stronger thanpride." and therwas romance missg in today's music. the best thg i could tell bria is try to do someing that is not happeningoday. trying to get in the niche, beuse you have a beautiful voice. but you got to do something with it th you don't he. and th's what she's ne. it's one of those sleeper records that if people ay and listen to all the way through, she got you. tavis:why i am not hearing lot of this on radio? >> i think it's because i am not signed wi a major label. target is not a rerd company, they are distributor and retail store. and a od onat that, million people go through the ores every week. they havea ance to pick up the lotusflow3r record. theyare treating uslike any other record compy, they buy the same amount and pay th sa price. we havedone que well already, bria istaken care of and i am. and i pe to do more deals with anita baker, we are trying to work on jazz things. bu

shay replayed, you tell them, lol." >> needless to say this didn't go over well. young african-americans were offended. writing for the daily beast, i started digging and find out there was a pattern of these comments on her sites. this cements the stereotypes holding the republican party back big time. once it started to get press, she issued an apology. >> well, as you say, not exactly the image, i think, as the republican party as they struggle to attract minorities right now is wanting to convey. >> the exact opposite. i think there was a culture of war going on inside of the republican party. abraham lincoln is losing the culture war. the party has a huge diversity deaf sit, huge problem with young people. endorse the comments with full knowledge, it puts out a huge not welcome sign in front of the gop that solidifies the negative ster stereotypes to reconnect to the new generation and broaden their base of diversity. this election and figure is going to have real ramifications throughout the national party. >> john avlon for us tonight. thanks very much. >>>

shay came out with a statement saying she had been misunderstood.nguage and has accused her opponents of stirring the pot, basically. now, this really blew up online in the past couple weeks pushed by further digging, further comments found by the website the daily beast. but despite all that, audra shay was elected the new chair of that organization, wolf. >> abbi, how are other members of the organization reacting to this? >> it seems to be a real split. according to some people at the convention who say it was almost a fisticuffs, but however, audra shay was elected. one of the people that was there was lenny mcallister, african-american from north carolina, from the north carolina delegation, also a young republican. he chronicled the whole thing last weekend on twitter. one of the things he wrote was "has the young republicans just time warped back 30 years with this election?" wolf? >> thanks very much, abbi, for that. let's bring in michael steele, chairman of the republican national committee. he's joining us here in "the situation room." wh

shays, when he was in the house of representatives. we said that, the relative legislation, participated extensively in the competence of lessons of learned project, conducted by the special inspector general for iraq reconstruction, accountability office. and 2005 conducted a formal joint lesson with the commanding general of the army. with other commissioners appointed to conduct this review and at the opportunity to work professionally with many of them and in the past we worked professionally with the senior commission staff in each and every individual brings expertise in a perspective to these important task. i've also had the opportunity to work with many of the key federal agencies involved in developing the requirements, including the oversight activities in the special inspector general for iraq reconstruct and we appreciate the challenges that they have faced and the commitments they have shown to fulfill the government's mission. we have also been privileged to work with dozens of companies and hundreds of executives from a

he told the crowd the first time the beatles played shay, they couldn't hear a thing. partly because so many girls were screaming. >>> in 1896, utah became a state. "stars and stripes forever" was composed. it's the year henry was born. he died today. how the world is remembering the world war i veteran. s the tough part is over for judge sonia sotomayer. as deputy political director, paul steinhauser tells us the committee will vote on her nomination to the supreme court. >> reporter: sonia sotomayer is out of the hot seat. they meet tuesday and could vote as early as that day on her confirmation. republicans could push it back to july 28. regardless, the democrats have the votes in the committee. there are 12 democrats and seven republicans in the committee. after passage in the committee, it moves to the full senate. republicans say they won't filibuster or block a vote in the senate. expect a vote before the senate breaks in early august for summer recess. that's something the president asked for. how many republicans will vote for her? three republican senators sa

russia well, ira closer to them to the united stat to have nlear weapons and far r a varie o reons shay have not joed usn i am posing sanctionsnd my guess is in private he ma a pit for a eater cooperative effort with russia tstop the weapons program. whether we got satisfaion dot know. >> thas my bet too, they had to tal about iran at one point in these coersations i heard chicag chairman othe jo chief of staff the window is closing in iran and could have a nuclear weapon inne to two ars or someone else riking iran. >> charlie: meang? isrl, probly. that's what he means in terms a window if that happen soon it's not looking to e when they hava nuclear weaponnd whenhe israelis also dide th're sohreatened they have to do something about it. i thought general mullen sounded more concerned than he has in a long timand saying all the options are on theable includinmilitary opons and hasaid that in the past but for while. >> charlie: at do you ma of wh the vice president said when h was in iraq? >> in rms of iran? >> charliein terms of ira and israel. >> well i think the vice president,ometime

shai, let's let the group go to work. we want to hear.ve with? let them go and show us the way. >> well, okay. before we begin, i think that scratcher wants to say something. hold on. ♪ >> yeah, he says they want to perform the history of music in three minutes for you guys. >> fantastic. >> so take it away. the voca people. ♪ >> what you're about to hear, human vocals, no instruments, the voca people. ♪ ♪ alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia alleluia ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tutti-frutti, oh rudy tutti-frutti, oh rudy ♪ ♪ tutti-frutti, oh rudy tutti-frutti, oh rudy ♪ ♪ get around, get around i get around ♪ ♪ down around the corner half a mile from here ♪ ♪ holiday you've got a strawberry pop-tart, but i've got a warm, fresh baked strawberry toaster strudel. see the difference? mmmm. i do. (announcer) pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. kids are hungry after school. that's why i always have totino's pizza rolls. big pizza taste. in a bite size roll. kids can't resist their delicious pizza flavor. totino's pizza rolls. the pizza way to

shai, let's let the group go to work. we want to hear. with? let them go and show us the way. >> well, okay. before we begin, i think that scratcher wants to say something. hold on. ♪ >> yeah, he says they want to perform the history of music in three minutes for you guys. >> fantastic. >> so take it away. the voca people. ♪ >> what you're about to hear, human vocals, no instruments, the voca people. ♪ ♪ alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia alleluia ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tutti-frutti, oh rudy tutti-frutti, oh rudy ♪ ♪ tutti-frutti, oh rudy tutti-frutti, oh rudy ♪ ♪ get around, get around i get around ♪ ♪ down around the corner half a mile from here ♪ ♪ holiday >>> good morning, it's saturday, july 25th >>> we're learning more about four killed during a helicopter crash. four died and they were returns from a charity event from hagerstown. they didn't have a flight plan because the tower was closed and eyewitness news learned they were concerned about the weather. >>> the frantic search will continue for an 11-year-old girl that fell off of a boat ye

the one that shays don't eat that chocolate cake, versus the reflexive whiches the human instinct that works so well. the fight or flight that says, chocolate cake, good. so market going up? good. got to get in market going down? bad. i'm losing my nest egg. want to panic and sell. ... >> it did not work any more. my dad to i love dearly, he called me and told me i am a contrarian i am following the dogs of the dow. when you do something that everyone is doing are you a contrarian? or are you following the fad? it is easy to call ourselves contrarian but the only true way is to rebalance. when stocks go down you have to buy some more. when stocks go up, i guess what? you have to sell. it goes against every human instinct. my wife patti you is in the audience kevin and i used to play board games. we used to have different methods to see you would go first broke i am with those guys you have to teach a life lesson you cannot always go first. usually lost that argument. [laughter] that kevin nunu matter what method we used the had a 1/3 chance of going first. i taught him some simple math

iran is closer to them to the united states to have nuclear weapons and far for a variety of reasons shay have not joined us in i am posing sanctions and my guess is in private he made a pitch for a greater cooperative effort with russia to stop the weapons program. whether we got satisfaction don't know. >> that's my bet too, they had to talk about iran at one point in these conversations i heard chicag chairman of the chief of staff the window is closing in iran and could have a nuclear weapon in one to two years or someone else striking iran. >> charlie: meaning? >> israel, probably. that's what he means in terms of a window if that happens soon it's not looking to see when they have a nuclear weapon and when the israelis also decide they're so threatened they have to do something about it. i thought general mullen sounded more concerned than he has in a long time and saying all the options are on the table including military options and has said that in the past but for a while. >> charlie: what do you make of what the vice president said when he was in iraq? >> in terms of iran? >> c

>> well, it would attempt to make sure that more people are not in the situation of teri shay vo. if terri schiavo had this conversation with her family and her doctor before this incident occurred and had executed a document or the doctor actually knew, we wouldn't have had 17 judges intervening and we wouldn't have made a national spectacle out of that family. that's why i have these provisions. i assume that you do. maybe even lars larson does. voluntary. >> there's no -- nobody is pressuring you to make these decisions. you're saying that. >> it's voluntary. it's your doctor, and i invite anybody to look at my website and look at the actual language. >> thank you very much for coming on the show. u.s. congressman earl blumenauer. the things sarah palin says sometimes leave you kind of bewildered maybe because you haven't heard them put to verse. wait until you hear -- bill shatner is going to do it for us. he's going to give us the poetic version of the words of sarah palin. it's pretty funny, and it's not derogatory. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. - girls: yeah! -

authorities shay members checked into the hotel and set off near simultaneous plogs. no group has claimed responsibility yet but suspicions. is that correct? >> that's right. no one has claimed responsibility yet, but suspicion has fallen on the jemaah islamiyah. you will recall the bali bombing in 2002. 200 plus people died in that. a marriott bombing and australian bombing back then and a string of bombings. j.i. has splintered but it still seems to be dangerous. part of its hallmark were high profile suicide attacks. very much like what we've seen today. one american official described today's bombings as thech vech in your as very much in your face and that has been a style of j.i. although they've taken knocks over recent years, suspicion will fall on them. >> ian, any concern that there could be another short-term bombing there in jakarta or elsewhere in indonesia. >> i think people will be on high alert. this is the first bombing we've seen of this scale in four years. indonesia really felt it had put this kind of thing behind it. between a very effective campa

. >> we are talking to the ma shays about their new show which features their six children. i know something about multiples. but for me it's even hard to imagine six baybies all at once because i know how impossible triplets are. given the mess around "jon & kate plus 8," a lot of attention on them, a lot of concern of what the cameras have done to the kids. do you have those concerns? worried about bringing cameras into your lives? >> dr. drew, we have a little bit differing opinion. i'm not as worried as jenny is i think. our cameras are only around five days out of the month. six to eight hours a day. they work completely around the children's nap schedule, their feeding schedules. it's really quite different. in fact, i think really the only thing we have similar is the fact we are parents of sextuplets. it doesn't bother me. >> the jon and kate series they follow them all the time. is that right? yours, it's a very isolated, contained -- >> that's their job. we have full-time jobs. this is like a fun dult documentary on the side. >> you have no ill feelings about the e

tolson think of aurvings, dra shay's comments this week. should she be a representative for republicans. >> i'm not familiar with the situation. i know audra shay personally and the two people running for our chairmanship. she's never presented herself in any other way than a respectful person. she's never said a comment around me i think is derogatory, from what i've been told i think the comment that was made on her facebook was sort of taken out of context but i would feel much better responding to that if i knew a lot more about what happened on facebook. i know there was a comment made and subsequently, people know you can make a comment and 50 more people can make a comment and if you make a comment to the one above you, it can be taken out of context. so it seems like this issue is a nonissue since it was taken out of context. i know the person personally and i respect audra. and she's never said a negative comment about anybody in such a manner around me. host: and if someone commented on her facebook page and there was a series of

. >> thank you shay! >> off with his head.e's a coward. >> the family is under one roof. >> see you tomorrow. >>er more on the health sciences fund. one of the best performers in the first half of the year is up about 10% since the beginning of the year. will health care do well in the second half. who are the potential winners. we have a lot of work to get back to work today. chris jenner is portfolio energy of the fund. four stars rated by morning star. congress gets back to work and they have the-week period to wrestle health care reform and try to put it in some sort of shape. what are your expectations? >> we are at the point where the concepts are behind us and we are at crunch time. we have to figure out how to pay for this. there is a lot of anxiety in the market place. this is a major initiative. it's a good form of therapy and not controversial we need to know how to manage this information. there is tool companies that the vast majorities will take a haircut. >> a lot of people will be talking about the pharmaceutic

>> you wonder what the trend is shaying up in tech whether intel's time is finally at hand.d. shares are flat as you said and headed into the second quarter earnings report after the bell. that follows a better than 30% rise since the march lows. still they are well off the nearly $25 a share leading analysts to believe shares have more to grow than to lose. assuming they can reiterate that a bottom has come and gone. it's adam microprocessor powering the lion share of the net books. a pc upgrade cycle and microsoft in the windows 7 release that could accelerate amd and even dell. 7.3 billion in revenue and the numbers are coming right after the close and we will have complete coverage. >> stay with us. bring in doug friedman with the semiconductor analyst with the power player. ron ensana. thanks for coming on. i want to start with you. jim just mentioned about how analysts think there is room to grow and i want to know if you agree.e. also in light of what was said about dell and ow sensitive the market place was, it seemed like the market is jittery on what we may hear. >

there was a resent erupt on face book this week with audra shay.this was a comment made on her face book page. we have a question on twitter. they are asking what do you think about the comments this week? >> i'm not familiar with this situation. i know the two people running for chairmanship. she's never presented herself in a way other than professional. i think the comment made was taken out of context i would feel better if i knew the context we know if you make a comment and 50 more people make a comment and it's taken out of context. i respect audra. she's never made a statement to me. >> there was a seer russ of responses made on her page. megan paige is a young republican who is concerned race politics. she has maybe some social more liberal values. how does that idea work? >> i would think you find in young republicans a pretty row bust balance between social versus fiscal. all young republicans are fiscally conservative, when it comes to social issues, i take those more personal. a lot of young republicans are struggling with where do we

corporat saying, hey, we're in big truf, we believe like something saved their their things and they're shay, it's already - >> well, the california legislature, it's so wamky. to mistake sure that you this don't find those things. >> well, taxes aren't low. you're going to leave, right? >> that's not good. doesn't it feel toi like it's a microcosm of the problems we're going to eventually get? >> it hope not. it seems like the high tax states are the ones that have the biggest deficit problems. why is that? florida has no personal income tax, right, and it's not nearly -- >> florida runs into its troubles from time to time. every time there's a hurricane that pops up down there, the state hurricane insurance fund is database a lot of people say woefully underfunded. >> you would think that you've got a budget deficit, raise the revenue. that should make sense. but then all of the unintended consequences happen and you end up having people move and leave and corporations leave and the revenue actually goes down, the tax rate goes up, but the revenue goes down. that's what we're looking at na

there was a resent erupt on face book this week with audra shay.his was a comment made on her face book page. we have a question on twitter. they are asking what do you think about the comments this week? >> i'm not familiar with this situation. i know the two people running for chairmanship. she's never presented herself in a way other than professional. i think the comment made was taken out of context i would feel better if i knew the context we know if you make a comment and 50 more people make a comment and it's taken out of context. i respect audra. she's never made a statement to me. >> there was a seer russ of responses made on her page. megan paige is a young republican who is concerned race politics. she has maybe some social more liberal values. how does that idea work? >> i would think you find in young republicans a pretty row bust balance between social versus fiscal. all young republicans are fiscally conservative, when it comes to social issues, i take those more personal. a lot of young republicans are struggling with where do we p

also with us, jim hin nes, in the seat held by christopher shay who lost in the 2008 election.e is from the financial services industry and also chairs a new democrat group dealing with the market regulatory structure. we just had the inspector general on about the tarp funds. what is your view of the economic outlook of this country right now? >> well, i think it's clear we're in a much better world than six months ago when we were worried about whether the global financial system would collapse. as politically poisonous as the tarp was, i think the people who architected it and voted on the tarp can say it served a purpose in stabilizing the banks. now, the banks aren't lending the way we want them to lend and employment is not close to where we want it to be but we're out of the phase of panic that consumed the nation six months ago and all of us are crossing our fingers that we are return to stability and growth and employment. host: the major message from the inspector general's office of the estimated $27.3 trillion, when you look at all the different programs to aid diff

think about the mainstream public opinion in europe or shay russia or africa or south africa at the end of the 18th century. even today, it's doubtful the united states would be satisfied by the thinking of most other governments such as china, much of the muslim world, and the dozens of other countries around the world. as i noted in my remarks that related my concerns about harold koh's views on foreign policy if the founding fathers were given to transnationalism, america would not be the leading light of freedom in the world that it is today. nor would it be a leader in convincing other nations to protect free speech, and other political freedoms such as our being asserted in places like iran today. do we really want judges to look to the laws of foreign countries when deciding our most treasured constitutional provisions? such as, for instance, the second amendment. i do not. and the american people share my view. judicial activism is not a popular concept. while i do not intend to judge her qualifications to decide cases on the u.s. supreme court based on this one speech, i believ

the shays rebellion. and so it's like out of desperation that they say let's give it a shot. we're a major convention in philadelphia. >> and madison takes it on himself to be the one to try to persuade washington to take part in this activity. not an easy thing to do. because washington, i think, sees what this is really about. which is trapping the articles of confederation. the articles of confederation had in them an amendment process. but it required the unanimous consent of all the states. so that it was an almost impossible to deal with any kind of a controversial or sectional rivalry kind of -- >> rhode island never showed upment >> they would have killed it right away. >> rhode island didn't show up at the convention. >> and washington has taken an oath, an oath to support the articles of confederation. can he attend this constitutional convention? >> he's also promised the american people that he will never come back in public life. he's cinciatus and he doesn't come back. one of the major political achievements of that moment. without washington, this could have ve