i alwayjoked before icame to shington i didn't think th good ideas came from washington.what i'm inashington i know allhe good ideas don't come from wasngton. the best ecation ideas will always cme from the local level, so great teachers, great princips, great districts a states. what we haveis the opportunity to iest in be practices to take to scale what rks. sit is a huge chce to put resources behindthose teachers, those principals, those districts at are demonstrating thebility to dramacally improve student achievement. that's what this is out. but much of the criticism of prident bh's no child left behind wa that it was too punitive. therere those who are now saying this is a punive approach. how is it different. >> again, there's nothing punitivebout this. his is a chace f states, if they want. thereis nothing mandato about this, totally ndatory. if theyant to compete for this ney they have a chance to bring hundredsof millio of dollars into thei districts. and if they don't wan to compete, they havehe right not to. so there is no sti on is. this is all carrot, this

>> to dominate the coverage of washington p washingto shington politics and like espn.s pple had niche area we could have a bright future and we thought what if we put together t best reporters we knew and came from the work journal and shington post and johnas at the post years. we wked with everyone in washington and knew notll repoers were created ual and if we uld get ten or elve of the best and someone that worked with us attime mazine andben smith that werep and coming and expertise in prence and put them in one place and focus intensely on politics were pretty confident wcould move tohe front of the liand start to donate verage of washgton if we were focuss. >>harlie: it wasolitics not government or can you make that statemen >> i think to begin with it was mpaign because that wasthe huge story 2008. that's what i snt my time covering but people we coved on theampaign are now runghe cotry and the pocies and government. >> at the time we put the whole thing together inbout three months becse we knewhere wod be intense intert in that campaign and knew you'd probabl

by law, the shington monument is the tallest structure in the district of columbi- 555 feet of white myland marble. it's unquestionably the ci's, and one of the nion's, definingandmarks. the controversial egtian obelisk was a design borwed from antiquity. man: the architect, robert mills, had in minfor a great circular lonnade around the base. that was never realid. buthe sheer abstractness, the size, the power of theonument today speaks voles. narrator: the monument ishe gathering place for thcountry's celebrations.. demonsations... festivals. it's arand avenue and our nation "backyard." nstruction on the wasngton monument ben in 1848, but was left unfinisd cause of financial troubles and political infighti. work resumed aftethe civil war, but the new marble, alough from the same quarry, s slightly different color-- a demarcation still evident today. when the monumt was finally dedicad in 1885, it was the tallest buildin in the world. spectacular views still awt from t lookout station at t top of the monument: the catol building... the whithouse... the jeffson memorial... the lincn

weave this report from shington. >> th airbase is home to the st infamous prison in afghanistan.n the ptures we can show are restricted by the u.s. milary for security reasons. around 600 of the high-value leged prisoners are locd up here. some havealled it afghanistan's guantanamo bay. it is at the center of a major u.s. review of the entire afghan prison system. "the newyork times" first quarter -- first reported on the review. more mnstream priners may ne to be kept serate from those accused oextremism. then there is the ise of abuse. last month, the bbc oke to 27 former detainees. they claim to have been mistreated. >> we were thrown on th ground and shot at for ds and 60 ghts. ias forced to stand. they would not let msleep. the only stopped this when my feet were so swollen that i could not stan >> the pentagon denies th specific allegatns. but it does not want aepeat of what happenedn iraq. the evidence oill treaent handed out by u.s. soldiers ther did huge damage to america's reputation thatas been used as a recruiting tl for islamic extremists. there's ao the issue of the

-shington with four  >> baseball players are second shift employees.they are not used to this  timeee.  playing. it's hard to unyind after fnsig the gam at 10 or 11. we didn't expect the bullpen to be working very hard with josh johnson pitching. >> rob: no, he is pushing 70 pitches. he has almost a 4 1/2 e.r.a. against the washington nationals. he has not had a lot of fun against the washington batting order. 4-1 at home but not against the nats. >> bob:  th naslost the games after kearns hit a grand slam. nobody will rwa@ it's into the bullpen area. josh johnson, a strikeout pitcher. on the year, three strikeouts today, 97 total. but he has walked three. joe robbie stadium and pro player and now land sharkstadium. then i learned last night that this land shark naming deal is temporary. they have it up in lights but nothing appears to be personality. somebody told me they signed an 8-month contract. is that crazy? 2-2 to willingham. and josh will go out of play right side. we arrive at the 1 0-0 hour. first game in progress in

shington, i hope you're listening to this eureka moment. i'happy to ve th administon and congress mock ne in public. heck, i'll feedhe white house press secretary, who seems to like wating this show so much. i'll feed him the mater just as long as they conside this id in private. i know this doesn't sound le a big thing,ut it would be the answer to every inveor's prers. you want to get eelected, be th congreman who can tell his or h constituents, i'm the person who createded tha great 30-year 5% bond forour 401(k), your i.r.a., your 529 that's helping you get backo even without the risk ofstocks or the miniscule return fm cds. you can say i'm the oneho rescued you from scams or high fee bond funds that give a smaller return. tim geithner, you want to win back all that popularity, start issuing these bonds. tim, sell the bonds directly to t consumer. no fees or spreads. give them anutomatic reinvestment option so thathat money can compound at 5% tax free. remember, because it is in a 40k) or i.r.a. where you don't pay taxes until you take ou

today, it called executis from 25 mortgage seicing firms to shington to find out why. as stephanie dhue reports,hose servicers have now agreed toet busy modying half a million loans inhe next four months. >> rorter: the admistration's foreclosure evention plan is off to a sl start. inhe lt three months, 200,000 mortgages ve been modified, ile there have been twice as many foreclosures scott talbt of the financial services roundble says kinks are ill being worked out. >> what we'd like to sees having aommon set of documents. there's diffent forms you have to fill out, dending on which ogram you're going into and there isn't a cleadefinition of alley relevant terms. >> reporter: one of the most confusing terms ismminent deult. what's unclear ijust when borrowers are at rk, if they are still current wi their payment. keith ernst the center for responble lending says borrowers are geing mixed signal >> there's a lot gng on in this program, servicerare largely overwhelmed and it's easy for misinformatioto get into the system. borrowers should have chance to corre that befor

stephanie dhue, "nightly business report," shington. >> suzanne: u.s. a chinese leaders say thaction's they have takenave helped pull the world's nancial system back from the edge. as they wrped up two days of high level talks iwashington, both countries are proming to continue makinprogress on financial d economic reforms. china says it willontinue to boost dema at home in order to reduce reliance exports to the united stas. the u.s. is proming to rein in our dget deficit and tighten financl regulations. >> paul: wall street g off to a slow and lower srt amid some corpate earnings that, unlike the recent trend, were not tter than expected. u.s. steeloffice depot and crane company weremong the examples. additional sellingas triggered a bigger than expected decline in july conser confidence. at noon, the dowas down 81 points with the nasd off 16. stocks snt the afternoon nsolidating recent gains and ended narrowly mixed. the dow fell 11.79oints to 9,096.72. but the nasd composite rose 7. points to 1,975.51. the s&p 500 indeslipped 2.56 points to 9762. in

care wrong. >> moys: the old, top-down washington-centered syem the democrats propose ll empower shington to restrict the cur and treaents your doctor can prescre for you. >> moyers: "president obamis experinting with america, too much, too so, and too fast." >> your experiment promote- proposes toouch, too soon, too st. moyers: as the republicans fired away, big business steed up the attack,oo, their bbying and advertising guns blazing. in certain key states wher members of congress remain o the fence, t airwaves are vibrating withelevision commercials aimeat shifting hearts and mindsway from any change that ght threaten profits. >> at will happen to your family's health care if washington runit? now waington wants to bring canadian-style heah care to the s. moyers: president obama rejected the republicans' waterloo metaphor, but mount a massive media coteroffensive of his own. >> anotherepublican senator, that defeating heah care reform is about breaki me. so l me be clear. this isn't about me. i ve great health insurance, and so does every meer of coress. this debe is about the letters

pierre thomas, abc news, shington. >>> as alaska governor sarah palin leaves office this weekend, the latest abc news poll offers mixed messages about her future. it shows 40% of americans view her favorable. while more than half, 53%, view her unfavorably. that's a reversal since last fall. but the poll shows palin is a clear favorite with republican voters. and one of their top three choices for the next presidential election. >>> california lawmakers are pulling an all-nighter, attempting to plug the state's huge $26 billion budget gap. it is a painful attempt to cut spending across the board, in the midst of a recession. included are cuts in education, health care, services for children and the poor. among the more contentious issues, allowing new offshore oil drilling to raise cash. >>> meanwhile, more than $1 billion worth of marijuana was seized or destroyed in raids in california's sierra nevada mountains. 83 suspected marijuana farmers, some of them mexican citizens, we arrested. and dozens of weapons were found. last year, more than 5 million pot plants were seized in a simi

john rostn is here and chri covers politics for "the shington post." hn wan, today youad an interview with the husband of the woman senator opensign had anffair wi, right >> yes. on the progr doug hampton alleged jn sign paidhis wife morehan $25,000 that triggerethe crew to file the etcs complaint against him to ask r a criminal investigatn. they put out th statement to try to take away any legal questions. he got plenty o political and ybe in his mindral questions, b they tried to take t legal questions away. >> who was asked for t criminal investigatn? >> the ethicsomplaint was filed agains him withat the timics comssion and the fec complaint, i bieve. theyearn of the hamptons allegations of more than $a,000 triggering criminavlenc they are goingo ve for a criminal investigation. >> think we have a clip of your interview toda that is cued up and ready tgo here with doug. what is his name? >> doug hampton. >> doug hampton. let's listenor that. >> he told me, basically at t sametime, he said, i'm love withour wife. yo can't work for me anymore. we we e

. >> the is no free lunch in shington. >> o this is a very expensive nch. cbo said $1.60 trillion. and the central contradiction but on the one hand he wants to expand coverag that costs more. on the other hd he tells us over and over again that thbig thre to our fcalhealth and a future and to our economy i the expore of health care costs. this is not a solution. this would make it worse. >> how can you say it kes it woe when yohaven't seen the bill? it hn't been done. >>cbo already scored the first attemp. >> a proposa not the act. >>k. $390 billion missi here. therere a lot of option -- sounds like bernieadoff. >> $39 billion a year they he to come with. these ys, chump change. but things on the table -- max ucus was talking about taxing very wealthy benefits. that seems to be off the table and then ather option that they discussed is going back to oba's proposal, which is to limit charitab deductions for people whoake more than 50,000. so everything is ck on the table to fill the gap. >> at the same time, we have the sotomayor hearin starting next week. publicans still have not

tonight on "shington week." meetin popes an presiden -- it's alpart of the job for any u.s. leade >> we've not greed on every point. buwe've shown it is posible to move foward and make real and unprecedented progrs together. gwen: sill, from climate change abroad to economic and health care fixes at homethe president w more hurdles than hoorays this week. >> the ruth is there was a misreading of just how bad an ecomy we inherited. rather than say misread, we had incompleteinformation. >> now, tis is the greatest fabration i've seen since i've been in coness. gwen: are health re and economistimulus off track? and what can the preident do to get them back on? plus the week'solitical mystery. >> i'm not gog to closeany do that may be opefor m out ther gwen: is sarah plin's political career oer or just beginning? coverin the week, doyle mcmanus ofthe los angeles times," ceci connolly o"the washington post," borah solomon of "the walltreet journal" and james barnes of "national journal" announcer: celebrating 40 ars of journaltic excellence, live from our nation'sapital, this is

. >> it's interesting, we're going to talk to governordean, he said i an interview, shington isoreesistt to change than anything except a few ligious cults. so comparing washington to religious cults. wel see if they will have what some like toall the come to je moment. >> michael jackson's the other big story his public morial may be er, buthere are still ma unansweredquestions. nearly two weeks after his death, his fin restg place remains unknown. it does not appear jackson will buried at forest lawn cemetery. jackson's cse of death is listed as deferred. it could still be wks before tests are comple and a coner said investigators are still holdg michael jackson's brain, which is not uncoon. it will be returnedo his family once the tests necessary are finished. michelle kosinski joins us outside th family coound. a lot of peopl are curious why the family would n confirm where michael jackson's resting place will be. i imagine it's becae people will vandalize. >> reporter: exactly. maybe theyjust wantedome privacy andpeace. en at least f laying michael jackson to rest. it was a curious

ta talked aboboutchchinis winning, i i lo at rhetoric out of shington, we're much m mor intense on pursusugis an obobseion about global warming which may us great d dage th g grong jobs, tan, i g gue that's's wrere i'm coming from. larry, i couldn't a aee with youu more. having rere rereig country is in the fforne 5000 is acalally victory for american, fororei and ecoconoc c policy. is is the gbabalition we haha b bee pusushi for a l lon meme. because of that, amemeri has become very cee play sechblt w e have a a tax codeuiui in 1940s in a much d difrere w wor and policy on the margin is moving in the wrongdirection. i think o the radar screen, prprectionism building in the s.s.hether china tires or stl,l, ese are important decisions bubtologo ss bubbling surface anand w wlnly hurthe s.s. >> i wanttoo followwupup on th. hoholdn a sec.c. are youou saying america w wl quote-unquote fight chinina, don't like that wd fight, but reonond to china's economic advantages withhprotectionist walls, is t thawhat you're saying? t thas a big mistake. >>hat's actly what i saying. let meme explain his. rop

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. >> re: did the stories aut the salon at the "shington post", at the plisher's house, do dame the post? >> sure. was aistake. it's been acknowlged. th publisher a the editor have kind of... not kind of, 's kind of after no-exces apology. th tried to explain how it haened and i think they have and it never occurred. there was no salon. no mon changed hds. but it was something tha never should he beaunched inny manner, shape, or form. and i thinkthey know that and i think they learned a great lessonrom it. and on one of your sho i remember talking after i'd done one ofhe bush books about gege tenet, the c.i.a director, going in and saying "it's a slam dunk case we can make about iraq having weapons of mass destruction." and at, obvious, was a giant mistake and somebody afterwds said... after turnedout to be mistake now geoe ten nes qualified to c.i.a. direct because he realizes how wi good innt what you think is good pross you can mak a giant mistake. and i think that catherine weymouth, the young publisher of the "post" has now me a mistake anin a visle one, an embarrassing one and that

unkwn when you can ci fm someone who appears to be even the fmer republican senator ohis father, the shington redskins otball coach of great fame. quote, a couple of thohts from the day on beautiful, brightak morn. you have to sacrife to win. that's my philosophy in si words. george allen. ampersan from an inexplable ampersand, let's turno howard fineman and senior corresponde for "newsweek" magazine. >> don forget the ampersand. >> i guess it's e twitter uiva of also, as a complete sentence. the governor's quitting, did this just solidify whatever it was individual voterof any of the litistripes were alady thinking and feeling about her? >> well, keith, i udied that gallup poll very carefly. i don't think it's so much the fact that she quits the fact at she was so much in the news. i me, only sarah palin could break through the michael jackson story and i think en people got another chancto look at r, it was like quick-dryi cement. the democrats solidified fouto e against her. they vieher as the un-person you know, an unqualified, unintelligt, unintelable, and for alaskans with,he's st. sara

i spent an inordinate amount of me in shington lately. for people who knome know that's not my vorite place to be because i'm aab kind of guy. waingtonsn't an a.b. kind of place. politics are involved. the truth is there are a of constituents pullingnd tugging at members of congress tdo different things. the elements of real healthcar reform are in thebate right no the only thing tt worries me is we're wasting o time debating aboutho pays the billmeaning should we have a public plan ot, when really what we should be debati is how big the bi is. and we're using lot of political capital to talk out things that aren'tting at the ro cse problems in our healthcare system. is a cost problem. that concerns me. >> now, could you just tal about this diabetesituation. it's aor, major epidemic in the country. doesn't get talked about as an epidemic. homuch does it cost us, and what can we do aut it? >> it's huge. medco has about 25% of the diabetes populatioin this untry. we have over five million known diabetics. it's estimated that within our same

. > we're back with the shington post eugene robinson and michael isikof miael, the cia versus congress truth. there's a long ttion here. democrats d republicans in the housand the senate accusing e cia at different times of lyg to them. barry gowater, one of the hero republicans of all time cused the cia of lying to him abt the mining of the harborin niragua. what do you make of this latest round of this? >> well, there's couple of inteing developments. rst of all, the letter that was sent by e house democrats was pretty startling in its language. said that the cia had concealed significanactions from congress and misled memrs gog ck from 2001 until last moh. now, there's undoubtedly a political context this. speaker pelosi was under fir fromhe republicans when she said the cia h misled her a couple omonths ago, republicans said ty were shocked that the speaker wld tarnishing the representations of hard-woing pressionals at the agency, and so, i thk the democrats saw the concession by leon panetta when he came forward with is as the smong gun proving that pelosi was in e ear. whether i

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>>now to shington and attorney genenalal ec holder is reportedly consideriring investigatatin interrorotitionat t to p pla undnd the b bus miminiration. thth d deste the president's wishshes tt the country look forwrwar n bakward. m joined now livee from washington by car lelee,hite housusrerepoer for popotico. carol, thanks for joining g us. >>hanks f having me. obviously, many the lt,t, particulular t tho left ogogrs, ececsticic aut the possibility here,bubut how d do this play out again, as wee p t ou w wh the president's wiwies? >> ththiss something tt the presesenent s said on a numbere of occasions t th he does not want. esisted caallsararer this year for aruth commission loloining tois, much to t chagrin n his rerepoerers, particulararly oththlt.t. and he's al said a nuererf times thatat he wants too ok rward andot backward. it remains t to b seenen, sort h howe'll handle thihis ltetes ththg, buthat said, y y k kno withth theprident's numbers the waway ey are and his pol numbers sortrt odrdropng a t,t, maybybe he wantsn investigigioi into theuu adminisistrioion. maybe he wants somethin

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also on our web se all of john merrow's reports on t new orleans and shington, d.c.scols. >> lehrer: next, newules for stem cell research. jeffrey bwn has that story. >> bwn: president obama came into office vowing to lift his prdecessors restrictions on st cell research. in mah the presidentssued an executiveorder directing the national institutes of health to set guidelines. now the agencyas spelled out those rules. they alow more embryonic stem kreel lines they're known to come eligible for feral federal funding but t qualify those lines must be derived from human embryos th were approved for resear usebuy donors and origally created for i.v.f.b were not used or that purpose. help us walkus through what this a means we're joined by san dentzer editor of the journal health affairs and a health analt for the newshour. welcome back. >> nice to be back, jeff. >> brown: the biggest chan fromresident bush to presidentobama in generl terms. >> in general term it is as ou said the number ofines thawill now be eligible fo scientists towork on and work on it with federal do

do think it hurt her in that you'll need republican strategists, people in shington to help you run forshe lost credibility with the people and activists who are more politically involved. e lostredibility with her unexplained behavior. i thinlike lynn said, she has a strong support from activists o will be behind her. the polls seem to suggest it hasn't really canged much at all in that people w liked her before sti like her, democrats, independents still don't like her. >> we'll be backith lynnweet d perry bacon for more of "the potics." plebee's 2 for $20. it's refreshed, , real gd and readady for suer. oooo one appetizer to sre and two entrees for just 20 bucks. start with one of ur favorites, like our spinach anartichoke dip. then be to our new caforn shrimp salad or our classic sen ounce house sioin. applebee's 2or $20. 's reafood at the right ice, and it's got what takes for a real smer night out. 2 for $20. only at applebee's. it's a whole new nehborhood. >>> and so today, i'll rurn to the place where my political joney began back in 1978. back to touth side of ico. back to my c

i'chris tthews back from two eks in africa, back onsnbc's brd w hd studio here in shington. as you can see right away, it's quite a state of the a setup wi cting-edge technology. one of the things i've learned about television over the years is the bigr the om, the better, an have a lot more spacin this new studio. look at this place. >>> leading off tonight on t subsntive matter, the politics of today'sir round fight over president obama's nominee to the u.s. supreme court. judge sonia sotomayodelivered her openg statement before the senate judiciary committee today, and iediately said despite whathe once said and was tad saying about the role of the appellate crt in this countr it's not the job of a supreme court juste to me policy. >> in the past month many sena have asked me about my judicial philosophy. simple. fidelity to the law. the task of a judge is not to make law. its to apply the law. >> well, sotomayor seems headed toward confirmation. republicans made sure to r the reflag on some of her previous speeches and whether she's allod her personal background a sympai

and i i think lot of those condnditionsre going on shington and we're suppting themem with oupolicies in new jeey. >>on corzin online in new jersey. wewe're going to watch nor campaiaign closely. we he you comeme back. anks so ch. >> thahank youandrerea. >>> up next, hououse minoritywhp eric cantor weighs on the lklk of a secocotimulus from the republican point of vi as well as howeplicans are ramping up for ne week's itical confmation hearing with supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. you're watcng "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ♪ (announcer) transform your waterer. womemen who drdrk crystal light t k 20% more water. tal light. womememake a delicioustal light change. more water. tal light. to a deep micro-clean.n. ol d dp cleansers reach the micro-particles s d dir some basic cleansers can leave behind fofoa a cln so deep its s mio-o-ean. olay deep cleanserers. i swited to a complete mumultivitam with more. lyne a day men's 50advaage... s ngko for memory anconcentration. plus support f heart health. that's a great cl. one a day memes. does two jobs... at ononce one: kills

directofor human and civil rights the uslim american society freed foundation, an advocacy oup in shington d.c. david shan sister, is n yell boyd an anomal or part of a phnomenon that merits significant and on going attention fromaw enfoement? >> i thi itoes merit ongoing attention. this is aroblem. it shouldn't be an overstated problem, but it is a significant one. we've collected tae a here of 25 muslim americans that have been prosecuted over the past eight years fo terrorism-related offen that nvolves some element of violence. now t put that in context, there's been 130,0 murders oer the past eight yea inamerica. so this is a problem, but we should keep inhe contt and we should treat it seiously but not over it. >> suarez: there ve been arrestof americans and naturalize citizens and legal residents in places like lackanna, new york,utside buffalo,n miami, in oer places around t country. didany of them turn out to hae significant lks, ongoing links, to international terrorism or wre they just people whotarted toatch plots her in the united states? >> well, of those 125, about 40% had so

i came t the atlanticn 2002/200as a rearcher in the shington office.e magazine was then in boston and later moved down. and my experience there ended up being on thene hand as an editor of sht and eventuall long magazine features. and on the other hand as a political writer, opinion writer in washingto d.c. so idid doome reporting but my focu has alwayseen... at the alt lann tick it was a combination of editing long form work a doing... i ended up as blogger on the magazine web site and doi punditri, i guess you coulsay. >> ros (laughs) yes. a lot of ople aspire to that. w did the "new yoç times" get interestd? : they... well, they got in touch with m.. what is it, now? it's jy. ey got in touch with me during the winter. >> rose: they? who caed you on somhing like that? >> well, i m with andy rosentl and david ship by, beth editors on the op-ed and editorial page. and then we talked and a month or so later we talked aga. rose: is there some sapphire chair that bill kristol and now you inheritd? is tt the way it goes? the same way... aoreign poly chair

at would be something that shington could do to provide adtial stimulus. but it would come from the fed, t the administration. >> rose: wt do weknow about bernanke's ideas abo that? >> well, i would expect the federal reserve in theace of an economi outlook that we're talking about here to keep interest rates a low as they are now foa longer riod of ti than they otherwise would do if e economy werehowing e kind of strength that the administration hoped >> rose:o you expectthe federareserve to look at this crisis and say "we have go to chge, we've got to do this"? >> they're at maxim accommodation now. short-term interesrates are approximately zero >> rose: so we've run o of moneta policy? >> we coulhave a technical deba about things like qutitative easin but essentially we're no at ximum accommodion. but you can ay there. u me, pedal to the metal longer if you think you need to r reasons of economic weakness. and the fed, in other rds, may prove toe the more important participant, as usually it does, th the ainistration and the congress wn it comes to what

>> i ionon'tnow, because, again, lolot this is anonymous soururceanand is is -- if i know shington, thisthe bebeginng g a pretty involved and detatailedtoto, and i don't have enough informatatn,n, b i think a a lot reres to come on this. s suld there be an investigigioion,o you think? >> d d't know if -- first ofof all, i would l le e tonow the facts of the case bebefo t the should be, q quo, , an vestigation. how long did thehe decectoof the cia a kn a abo this program, and when did he termrminatititand all of these things arare gog g -- are probably gogog g toe heavily didiscusd d the weeks eaead. speaking about ininveigigatns there's now word from "newsweek gazine" t today that the attttoryy general is gegeing closer t to investigati allegeged tourur during t the b administration. is is the reporting frfr daniel kliedman.n. for sources saying h he n now thinking about a appoiinina prosecutor to invevestatate e bush administrtratios s utal interrogogatioprprtices. would that be a goododdedea? >> no. fought against waterbobodiding and said watererarardi was tortrture. we passed the dede

. >> rose: joininge now from shington, sator richard lugar, six-term republican senator and rankingepublican on t senate foreign relations committee. for over a dade, his voice on u.s. forei policy has bn a respected and steady one. i am pleased toave him ba on this program. welcome, sator lugar. od to have you, sir. >> tha you very much. eat to be with you. great to be with you. rose: what do yo make of thisgreement today and its pontial to start somethi serious with respect t arms reductn? >> i believe a of e agreements announced today ar ry important. t especially as it's been highlighd, the agreement f e treaty to be extended beyond december 5. and especiallythe inspections. the intrusive inspections that make it possible for some confidence to be with the russns and the united states as thow much we have, what we are doing with i, as well as the rest o the world be able to obsee that data. on the walin my conference room, i'm able t record what th pentagon rerts each mon, how ny warheads have bee takingoff of missile, how many missile destyed, how many submarinesealt with or silo >> ros

ow dlyn t dtus j 63n i shington aqueooitl cstt.ar t. only near 60 now in montgomery, irfaxndir a prigee geor's counties. in the 50s west and rtnoh. low and mid-60s southern maryland, ou barhe t.ay tint hensountai ofes wte w gi's nin i vand e 50. n rown d s iaiouthern arg t arnd the cinarhaia tas will continue to move east. here we've got a clear sky. the big old full moon now ttgeg low in the western sky. and for the rest ottfhe t day, we'll havehe lots of sunshine b 9:00, low 70s. byaroonen ne80. ought to peak in the mid-80s this afternoon with lots of sun. definitely need sun block going to the beach or pool. the sunset is at 8:36. should be ay mtlos clear night l with that full moon, a beautiful evening coming up, down into the 60s again tomorrow morning. a look at the tuesday forecast, that will be in ten minutes at 5:11. >> thanks, tom. >> thanks very much, tom. let's go to jerry edwards now and the news 4 traffic network. >> good morning. tom is to be congratulated for a beautiful weekend. the forecast was right on the old nose an

let's bring in ief shington coespondent norah o'donnnnel who has b be coveringg tss story asell.porter: well, i ithink on that same poinint,hyhy milk ,, shshe id? shdidn't have to m mlk it. it wasas s illogical, her statemenent. she could have decideddo o be a lame duck, announce she wawa't' ruruing and then noo on all those junkets. i thinkhe reason we're asaski is s s isararbarracuda. is is a woman whohoasas amazing grit, whichh i why peopleleike her. she e ha amazingg i inr strengt but she alals i think, ckck diipline andththat why she's so great to ver. th rambling, often inhehere atatemts on friday out at her lake house about why s s w was doing this lefeft us all scratching our adads. yoyou veve jojor republicans around this cntntry saying what the hehecks she dog? and then it leled a a these rurumo.. because her cacaaiaignoesn't offer r up r rsonable exexplatatioabout why she would leave office a year early, then ththerare all these dierent ththeoesesut there a and i tught it wasas extraordinarary atat therers s rurs out there that shs being investigated foror embezzlement

you don' wt to be known as a flip-flopper in shington. but, president obama and the first family will need flip-flops when they take a vacation next month. as president of the united states, you get to vacation pretty much wherever you want. but when you grew up in hawaii, not exactly a shabby vacation destination, where do you go to get away from all this? >> it's time to scrap this bill. >> this president has no one else to blame. >> reporter: the white house says the obamas will be spending the last week of august on martha's vineyard. >> i think it's going to be one of the most exciting things to hit the island in a long time. >> reporter: carl and his family have been vacationing on martha's vineyard for generations. >> i'm thrilled, as i think a lot of folks here on the island are. and excited. >> reporter: presidents have vacationed on the island off the coast of massachusetts before. bill and hillary clinton spent time there. so did, that's right, ulysses s. grant. now it's the obamas who will be tapping into an island which also