, and ted's a great lawyer.verybody knows that. but the thing that impressed me in bush v gore and afterwards was his tremendous integrity. he was someone who made great arguments, a passionate advocate for his side but didn't misstate, didn't overstate, always respected the process, and always acted with enormous integrity. after the election and he was nominated to be solicitor general, there was opposition to his approval -- >> charlieapproval -- a few of the senators didn't like the outcome (laughter) >> and i, of course, had been chief counsel of the senate judiciary committee, and i went to ted kennedy and i said, obviously, i'm not going to try to tell you how to vote, but this is a person of great integrity, and he deserves a vote. you shouldn't keep it in committee. this is not a situation in which you ought to try to prevent him from becoming solicitor general. >> charlie: so what happened? it was reported there was a vote, and he was obviously confirmed. >> charlie: exactly. but i and mary both enjoy

i totally agree with ted.ducation is sort of the next civil right that we have to talk about because if you are not educated, it is not made difference if you are black or white, whether you are gay or straight, regardless of your other attributes, if you cannot get a decent education, you cannot survive today's world. access to education is a function of how rich your parents are and where you live. we do not have rules that say we're only going to send the police and fire department into rich neighborhoods. we are not going to have the military protect poor neighborhoods. there are certain basic rights including access to courts. we do not say we can only how rich and poor courts. everybody has to go to the same court. education ought to be the same. everybody ought to get a decent education. to do that, we have to reform our education system. it is not like we do not spend a lot of money in the united states. we do not get very much more. >> we are low in terms of that. bush versus gore. will -- would that

talk last year called the one consciousness that was pulled off you tube on the ted x. blog it says we didn't censor you but were you surprised that your wildly popular talk was pulled and what does it say that the institution of ted which is portrayed as this beacon about a free academic thought it was a great disappointment for me because i had the highest opinion of ted prior to this but myself and my colleague rupert sheldrake both gave talks at attend a conference in london both of those talks considered what would be regarded perhaps as extraordinary possibilities about consciousness by mainstream science both of those talks were subsequently deleted from the ted x. you tube channel and then because there was a massive outcry across the internet at this act that was seen as censorship ted reinstalled them in what my friend rupert calls the naughty corps there on their own website where with great difficulty they could be found and seen again and commented upon now the reason that ted gave for pulling out talks they said it was because our. talks were not in accord

and ted and i like to talk to people as they're reading the book, and i'll turn it over to ted for his remarks on the project. >> yeah. and ultimately, i think one of the things we said while we were doing this was we're going to be positive. neither of us are luddites, you know? none of us think we should get rid of the technology. in fact, part of every chapter was supposed to be here's how this technology is good, here's where it works for you, here's why it's important for you, and here's why people set it up this way. and so, and in some cases they set it up that way for reasons we might not necessarily like, but we explore the good and the bad of it. but then, hopefully, you became enraged in certain places where you say i understand this is good, but it doesn't have to be this way. and that's, ultimately, where we are right now is that there's a lot going on right now, and more and more's happening as the internet of things becomes real. as you have not just a computer in your pocket, but a computer that is your jacket. and those exist right now, and we talk about them in the bo

but i also think that ted, but a ravine and millions. the engineer of bush is reelected cannot and george collins and and up would all of the political skill he used getting george bush's second term this issue, an enormous amount of money for this cause. he did that because ted olson was a ball. nothing but this case had lot of sort of impact. i will get back to you. >> you received a lot of flak. the fact in your a straight woman writing about key issues. how do you bridge that? of the approach being -- writing about a gay issue? >> i think a lot of the -- first of all, one of the really hurting things of this the book was incredibly well reviewed by the new york times, "washington post," entertainment weekly, but one of the satisfying things for me, it is true. i started to say, a lot of people were opposed to this case some of the criticism about the book reflects the criticism of the case one has been wobbly as having people like the head of the human rights campaign step in and write -- i did not know her. you must read this book t

there's nothing american about ted cruz. senator john mccain also, well, he had to jump in too, you see, because he's a former p.o.w. himself. praise him for his service to the country. but this senator made it clear that he too thought it was a bad deal. >> there are legitimate questions about these individuals who are being released and the conditions under which they will be released. these are the hardest of the hard core. these are the highest high-risk people. and others that we have released have gone back into the fight, that's been documented. and it's disturbing to me that the taliban are the ones that named the people to be released. so all i can say is we need to know more information about the conditions of where they're going to be and how. >> truly spoken by a man who lost to president obama in 2008. what do you expect him to say? then, of course, we have michigan congressman mike rogers who's going to be the next hot thing on talk radio in america. that's a hell of a job. the chairman of the house intelligenc

talk last year called the war in consciousness that was pulled off you tube on the ted x. blog it says we didn't censor you but were you surprised that or why. the popular talk was pulled and what does this say that the institution of ted which is portrayed as this beacon about a free academic thought it was a great disappointment for me because i had the highest opinion of ted prior to this but myself and my colleague rupert sheldrake both gave talks at the conference in london both of those talks considered what would be regarded perhaps as extraordinary possibilities about consciousness by mainstream science both of those talks were subsequently deleted from the tactics you tube channel and then because there was a massive outcry across the internet that this act that was seen as censorship had re-installed them in what my friend rupert calls the naughty corps there on their own website where with great difficulty they could be found and seen again and commented upon now the reason that ted gave for pulling out talks they said it was because our talks were not in accord

he knew ted olson. it was quite controversial at the time, of course he was widely seen as the architect of some of the bands that were put on about to drive evangelical turnout. but i think he works really hard with evan, not just in new york but all in vain, through mary bonauto and washington trying to recast this issue but i think is really important in terms of somebody put it to me, he turned down, he showed the republicans why this was in their interest long-term. >> host: did you know in 2004 even in massachusetts and the marriage fight was going on that mary bonauto among others were closely with republicans and that continued in vermont and the continued elsewhere? i mean, i guess again, it's not the information and the stores utah great, but the idea that the gay legal groups were taking a page out of chad griffin's bipartisan playbook struck me as a mischaracterization. >> guest: well, you know, i think that certainly, i think it is fair to say but it was, the past five years this issue is g

and ted and rand i'm sure are out there celebrating right now.or cruz earlier today. >> the voters of virginia have spoken loudly. and i think they have expressed a sentiment that is present across the country, which is that people are frustrated. they're frustrated with politicians in washington in both parties who aren't listening to them. >> all right. what he said there is absolutely true, right? i mean, that's a frustration that people have. how are you going to stop a ted cruz and a rand paul from rising in power now? >> well, first of all, by showing that ted cruz, for instance, is a fraud. last year he induced the congress to shut down the government, and after they did it, he couldn't deliver at all. basically, he said if the house shut down the government, he would be able to deliver in the senate the ending of obamacare. he knew from the beginning this was a fraud yet he went ahead and did it. to me he is dangerous to the party as rand paul. we have someone running around saying he is afraid the cia is going to be killing people in sta

meteorologist ted florendo is with us too. really we've seen a dramatic turn of events over seven days. this past week we had rain and sticky weather. everything cleared up in time for the weekend. >> we had severe thunderstorms that dumped a lot of rain. humidity was also up. one thing we've seen is humidity drop. we're bag to sunny weather again. outside now your current temperatures showing in the 60s for philadelphia and wilmington 61. 64 wildwood. 60s allen town and reading. temperatures warm up today. we'll show you that in a few minutes. >> thank you ted. >>> in other news we're following today. islamic militants in iraq continue to advance across the country, a u.s. aircraft carrier is preparing to stand by in the persian gulf in the event president obama decides to take action. joining me to discuss these developments is david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning rosemary. >> president obama says he's not putting american boots on the ground. are iraq kis likely to fight off militants?

which is why it's so hard for me to also give ted cruz a wag of my finger, because the way ted cruz went about becoming a not-canadian was so canadian. his cana-dectomy was performed with a simple certificate of renunciation issued by the government. a certificate just saying he's not canadian. hell, i got those. the printer in my office churns 'em out 24/7. i even got a two-ply version in the bathroom. come on, senator, no piece of paper can wipe the canada off you. i've visited toronto once 20 years ago and every now and then i still say i'm sorry. no, to become 100% american, ted cruz needs do something radically uncanadian. he needs punch a moose or pay for his own health care. and i can help. i can help. [cheering and applause] i'm here to help because i'm a trained ludovico therapist. i've administered canadian deprogramming before. jim? [screaming] ♪ cause then one week you looked at me ♪ dropped your arms to your sides and said i'm sorry ♪ >> stop it, stop it! >> stephen: now thanks to conditioning, every time he hears celine dion, he becomes nauseous, like a true american. next

ted, i'll let you answer. what do you think?ecides it, and they decided that bush won that case and won that election. and i think it was a very solid decision. of course, i may be a little bit biased, but i think david agrees actually. >> stephen: i'm afraid we don't have time for his answer, but... >> that's exactly what the court said. [cheering and applause] >> stephen: you came together to fight for gay or same-sex marriage rights. and you've won every case so far. [cheering and applause] what is so compelling about your argument that you would come together from different sides of the political spectrum to fight for this? >> the thing that influenced david and me the most i think is that we're in a country discriminating against our fellow citizens. our neighbors and our children and our coworkers, we're discriminating against them. we're telling them that they're not entitled to be treated the same and to have the same rights and privileges and disadvantages. >> stephen: we treat them the same. none of them can get marrie

[applause] >> thanks so much for being here because you are either a friend of ted's or friend of mine or a colleague or a business partner of some sort. thank you for giving up time in your evening to be here even though we made sure we advertise free food and free booze. that having said you are busy people. let me talk about why i wanted to do this book. what is interesting about it. the time the for ed snowden which was a year ago. we were talking about doing our second book, the first book protecting your internet identity, are you make online and the answer is yes, you and make online. naked pictures i don't know about but naked identity. don't want to know about. that is for after the show. we go to the publisher and we have a great idea, something we are concerned about. we talk about privacy in the age of big data. it is quote the money of an end of the phone with a publisher, the publisher is sweet, our second book was then and there with us tonight selling the book. and they said i don't think consumers care about that at all. we will have a hard time selling this book. >> t

ted florendo is tracking conditions for us. what a gift for dads ted. unsettled weather is around the corner. >> that's right. looks like this weekend, great dad's day with plenty of sunshine rosemary. remember the three s's, sun block, shorts and sun glasses. that's what you're going to need. we're starting with sun and warmer conditions. that is going to change for tomorrow. get out and enjoy this while it lasts. temperatures already 70 degrees northeast philly. 67 allen town, 66 wildwood. atlantic city, great day to be on the beach. lancaster 76 for your temperatures out now. breezes yesterday, not the case now. things fairly light. breeze for atlantic city and trenton. could get breezy on the shore this afternoon. highs today 82 philadelphia. we'll be about mid 70s for the shore. sunny skies throughout the afternoon. maybe few clouds by later in the evening. not a bad day. tomorrow, more clouds expected tomorrow afternoon. going to be a hot and sticky week next week as we approach the 90s again. we'll talk about what to expect coming up in your firs

back with me, ted olsen and david boies.ped by the world cup like the rest of the nation is is? >> probably not so much. >> absolutely. it's a fascinating thing. we haven't had time to watch every single one of these games. but to see people come together and to see the people that the cheering that's going on and the excitement, it's contagious. >> i know nothing about soccer and the world cup. i just want to be part of it so i go to as many viewing parties as i can. let's talk about hillary clinton and joe biden, both making statements about their wealth or joe vide's lack thereof. he says he's not wealthy. this week in an interview hillary clinton said she and her husband pay full income taxes unlike a lot of people who are truly well off. not to be outdone, of course, joe viden told a forum spotlighting working families that he has no stocks, no bonds and to savings account. what are your reactions on that squaring off for the nomination of 2016? >> david, you talk about the democrats. >> i'll talk about the democrats. >

we are in many ways gridlocked because of the ted cruzzes in the republican party.he sort of presidential stage but it is having a substantive effect on the gop. >> oh, i think that's absolutely right. i think that you could carry my analysis one dozstep further an say one of the reasons mitt romney ended up being not electable is the primary process took him so far to the right in 2012 and whoever the donor class settles on or the two candidates the donor class settles on will fall prey to the same effect. just the issue of the day to day, the new epa regs. come 2015 when all these republicans are doing battle against each other, whether it's jeb bush or chris christie, they're going to be drawn into the sort of anti-scientist thing that ted cruz and the rest of the republican candidates are going to be saying and that the gop base kind of expects out of them. do that on enough issues and then you reach the general election and you're not really electable. so what you're saying is true. it's had a major impact on policy and the effectiveness of institutions in wash

let me tell you the big winner out of this is ted cruz. opened up a populous path to the republican nomination. >> this immigration, it's also the case -- you need to explain the border thing. lindsey gram lindsey graham. >> did you see that enormous rally for ted cruz in texas over this past weekend? >> you also got the dark radio. >> they were hammered this guy all day. >> hammered what guy? >> hammered cantor constantly. cantor was ahead by 34, 35 points and he lost by 10. >> exit question. who is the most likely contender to replace eric cantor as house majority leader? have you thought about this, pat? >> i'm going to go with the first guy from randolph maicon who took out cantor. >> yeah, i think that's right, but to see this as a launching pad for ted cruz where admittedly, 65,000 people voted in this little race in virginia. and cruz can carry texas five times over. but i don't see him doing well in a lot of blue states. part of the battleground states that decide the presidency. >> david. >> i think on eleanor's point. to sit behi

and ted cruz does the same, not only in texas, but elsewhere. don't forget, it's cruz's mode of power, as far as i can tell, that was the main instrument in pulling a lot of these senators, incumbent senators, republican senators to the right and scaring them to the right. so thengd run in and survive primary races in their states. this isn't just about texas. texas is the holy land of this particular secular religion, and they're proud of it. and there are other place where is that resonates. and there's going to be a big battle in the republican party in 2016 to design who's in control. >> by the way, we're watching -- >> the ted cruzs of the world, or some other -- >> i was watching that performance by ted cruz. it's an evangelical, televanglist type of -- >> absolutely. >> no podium, physically almost connecting. i was thinking of all the applause lines in recent years. when they list the number of executions in texas, the people go wild. they don't know if the guy is guilty or not, but they love the idea of an execution. they talk about the

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thank you for ted and his law firm touche generously sponsored this yvette. thank you for coming tonight [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> chris matthews autographed his book can i have been anxiously wanting to read that ever since. obviously it is a book about tip o'neill to is the speaker and ronald reagan they have diametrically opposite views but could forge a relationship to get things done the present day congress could use that device will be interested to see how that relates to the present day is an action of congress. i look forward to reading that book. also i have books that i have said mesmerized by the fdr in anthony you deal but it is a multifaceted, book also a book called fear itself and looking at the politics how he put together this coalition end of northerners and southern conservatives set a time when communism and socialism and fascism were rising all over. then also with the new deal a book called america's sold in the balance with the of state department and i have long felt the state department and fdr himself did not do enoug

chris mcdaniel could make ted cruz seem like a moderate. >> right, but ted cruz -- senator cruz has shownself to be a rather competitive and rather savvy fellow. don't be surprised if mcdaniel gets elected that cruz will make sure that he is to the right of anyone else who tries to best him. >> chris mcdaniel may outcruz and we'll leave that logic to the republican party. thank you for your time. >> surely. >> after the break, does team christie know how to read a map? i don't know. we'll look at the latest traffic problems plaguing the new jersey governor coming up next. ♪ touch down... every morning... ten times! not just... now and then. once more on the rise... nuts to the flabby guys! go, you chicken fat, go away! go, you chicken fat, go! run, two, run (running) (like a tortoise) okay! (too far, and too slow.) now double up, ready! run two three four... (running) run two three four... (like a hare) run two three four... (now you are) run two three four... (getting there) run two three four... (go you) run two three four... (chicken fat,) everybody sing! (go away!) go, you chicken fat

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ted florendo is tracking the sunday forecast for us. ted, enjoy the day because changes are coming, right? >> yeah. we're going to see that this afternoon. not in the form of rain, though, rosemary. we'll see more clouds this afternoon. but we'll get that warm repeat like we had yesterday. with temperatures back in the 80s again. this morning we're starting off with clear skies. you're going to see a beautiful sunrise this morning if you're going to go out for that morning jog. we've got plenty of other canvas to show you throughout much of the morning. right now we've got most of those clouds in western p.a. those aren't the big, thick clouds. we'll just get some additional clouds this afternoon. we'll call it a mix of sun and clouds today. another disturbance coming in from the west. that will increase the clouds we'll see. that's going to give us also some overnight showers, too. current temperatures right now in the 50s for allentown, philadelphia at 66. 55 for atlantic city right now. walton wood, you're slightly warmer at 59 degre

let's get the father's day forecast from meteorologist ted florendo. ted? >> hey rosemary. with brilliant sunshine and temperatures warm today than yesterday. outside live look at boat house row. tranquil conditions, not much wind. temperature this is hour already in the mid-60s across temperature region. cooler this the lehigh valley and atlantic city 63 degrees. your forecast 82 degrees, sunny and gorgeous. rosemary? >> thank you ted. now to a developing story. setpa trains are back on after a strike since president obama signed the executive order and intervened. 400 members went on strike over wage increases and pension contributions. the work stoppage shut down 13 train lines that connect philadelphia with the suburbs. governor corbett asked president obama to create the emergency board to mediate the dispute. the president granted the request and made the board effective 12:01 this morning to work with leaders and setpa to resolve this dispute going on. i'm rosemary connors. ted and i will see you back here in 30 minutes for an hour and a half of news. now back to the

he was encouraged by rand paul, ted cruz and mike lee, the tea partiers in the senate. why run to lose? to make a point? >> to make a point, force the side to where you want to be. the interesting thing about labrador is he is pro immigration reform. these are people pointing to the david brat victory as an example that immigration reform is still toxic. this is less about winning against mccarthy than it is about holding mccarthy and boehner accountable. the vote is only a few days from now. very hard to see him pulling this out. >> are there other big winners and losers here, david? ted cruz, it seems like especially if they don't get a voice in the house leadership, they'll continue to go to cruz to get a voice in the senate. mitch mcconnell beat his tea party challenger back home. it's got to hurt. he wanted to say, look, they're loud, but they can't beat you. >> they just took out the number two in the house. >> that's all true. there's a temptation to make too much out of this at this point i really think. i think forever, politics has been a combination of person

he was here last night, ted cruz was here on thursday. you're going to have victories like marco rubio defeating charlie kris. rand paul. but then you're also going to have the sort of more established candidates who are going to win some. so -- and from our standpoint from faith and freedom's standpoint we have a dog in that fight. but sometimes we don't have a dog in that fight. we have so-called establishment candidates who have -- i mean, mitch mcconnell for example has a 91% rating on the faith and freedom congressional scorecard. he's been with us on iran sanctions, on tax cuts, on life, on marriage, he's been solid. is he as conservative as say a ted cruz? probably not. but 91% when i was in high school was an a. so we can work with both sides. >> we've got raffle reed here this morning on the "washington journal" and he's the founder and chair of the faith and freedom coalition. we want to get to as many of your calls as possible. the numbers are on the screen if you want to call in. but we'll get to gene calling in from detroit,

>> ted cruz and sarah palin? >> what did you say harold ford?>> i'm a sooner. >> i'm glad you cut yourself off. >> that was a great save. >> simmer down there. the ball was going out of bounds and you grabbed it. >> absolutely. >> you would think that would really -- you know, those people draw crowds. >> they really do, and this was -- >> they do. >> and this was a sharp candidate. but, you know, make your point though, joe. what was the night like for that group that went out campaigning? >> it was terrible. but it's very interesting. tom coburn, we had him on the show here about a month ago. what tom coburn said was, you know, oklahomans, we don't really need outsiders coming out telling us -- >> why don't we show you that. >> telling us how to vote. this was tom on our show. >> i think there will be a backlash from their effect there. oklahomans don't like being told who to vote for. if you'll recall in 2004 when i ran, washington was telling them what republican to vote for and spent millions of dollars backing that individual. and that ind

let's check with ted florendo. it will be warmer today than yesterday. >> that's right rosemary. 80s, near average for today. beautiful skies out there, few clouds expected for the day. temperatures quite comfortable because the humidity is down too o. as we look at the satellite and radar, no echoes coming from the radar. we have clouds towards the poconos. that's about it lancaster county. mainly clear for all of us. rather cool in some spots. 53 allen town, along with mount pocono. pottstown 54, wilmington 55, stone harbor 55, atlantic city 54. upper 50s wilmington now. here's what you can expect for the day today. hour by hour look. high 82 for philadelphia. clear and sunny skies. 74 slightly breezy down the shore by 4:0 with plenty of sunshine for your father's day. going to be a beautiful day to go out and take dad to lunch. however, things change big time this week. we'll talk about what to expect coming up in your first alert forecast. >>> thanks for that ted. >>> now to a developing story. first setpa trai

he got away with it, judge. >> you know what i think, ted?gures hey i killed two people i got away with it. why can't i commit a burglary? there is a certain arrogance. timberly, i'm going to bring new here. you know, both ted and i agree, we think the evidence was overwhelming. what say you on that point? >> clearly the evidence was overwhelming but let's talk honestly here the guilty verdict was not really about whether oj simpson killed two people in cold blood murder, it was a bit -- much bigger thing it was more about race and the racist, what was happening with the l.a.p.d. at that time. what had just happened with the rodney king incident. and so oj verdict itself was not really about the oj simpson killing two people. it was about a much bigger deal. and that's why we are still talking about it 20 years later. >> you know, it's very sad to think and i have charged many juries myself that the jurors are saying, you know he what? we are going to make the l.a.p.d. pay for the sins of this or that. and forget about the fact that two peopl

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there is ted cruz taking on obamacare. there is ted cruz taking on fast and furious. there is ted cruz taking on benghazi. and the irs. and the va scandal. and the bergdahl swap. and the out-of-control government spending. and the president's lawlessness. the list goes on. whenever i see him taking on yet another big issue, i invariably tweet, must ted cruz do everything. and the answer is, invariably, yes, because with the exception of his fellow warriors for freedom here today, he literally has to do everything himself. and thank goodness he's willing to do it. please welcome, a true hero of this republic, i'm honored to call him a friend, senator ted cruz. [ applause ] >> well, thank you so very much. thank you, monica, for the very, very kind introduction. what a fantastic fearless voice for liberty, monica. and what a blessing it is to be with all of you. you know, the scripture tells us where two or more gathered in his name, he will be there. and there are a lot more than two of us here today. it is a real honor, it is a pleasure to be here with you, to be join