it is also important to not place too much emphasis on martin luther king the idle but not enough emphasis on the ideals of martin luther king jr while we commemorate his memory today with this great memorial, let us not confuse nor forget what he stood for and died for. the young people around this nation organizing are very interesting but let us not forget the ideals he gave up his life for -- life, love, peace, equality, jobs, education, non- violence, decent housing, and an end to war. the young people of the occupy movement all over this country are seeking justice. justice for the unemployed searching for months for jobs and those among them have not given up in despair, justice for working-class people barely making it, justice for middle- class folks who are not able to pay their mortgages, justice for elders terrified they are losing the value of their savings and their health care, justice for the young people who graduate from college, are unemployed and burdened by student loans they cannot repay. justice for everyone who are simply asking the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share. sometimes we get caugh

and we come together to dedicate the martin luther king, jr., a memorial, our memorial, the world's memoriale throughout this day and throughout this country have contributed years of your time, talents, and money, to help us build the memorial we dedicate today. it has been both humbling and uplifting for me to be part of this magnificent undertaking. our hope is that, through this memorial, dr. king's legacy will continue to touch those who walked with him, those inspired by him, and future generations who will get to know him. on behalf of the martin luther king, jr., national memorial foundation, i want to thank everyone for doing so much, so long to help us to arrive at this triumphant day in history. once more, i also thank you to my family and my staff of the mlk memorial, a small group of folks who have worked tirelessly to make dr. king's dream a reality right here on our national mall. it is with great honor and pleasure that i introduced to you the president of the united states, president barack obama. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you very much. [applause] th

monday, the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial at 10:00 a.m. eastern and ronald reagan's use of intelligence in setting soviet policy at 1:10. for the complete we can schedule, go to c-span.org. >> yesterday, the house and senate passed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. after the measure passed, harry reid spoke to reporters on capitol hill announcing the group of senators who will negotiate with the house of a one-year extension. after his remarks, we will hear from house democratic leaders. this is about 24 minutes. >> i am certain that most of you would rather be anyplace than here. i am glad you're here today. i will be relatively brief. the conferees i am going to appoint will be max baucus chairman of the finance committee, ben cardin, a member of the finance committee, no one in the senate has been more protective of federal employees then senator carden and when we were doing the negotiations, one of the places that people were looking to do some real difficult things for federal employees, ben will be fair but not punitive.

the dr. martin luther king, jr. with mcarthur maze with no major problems. ny have been taking off for the christmas break or winter break i don't know what they call it in your area but it is light. and it looks good northbound in san jose, let's go to rose mary. >>> it is so dry we don't have fog to worry about and you can see it just ever so slightly as it rolls through and i will show you it right there. high pressure passing behind it and that's the story this morning. those winds are gusting strong in some areas especially the higher elevations, gusting to 38 miles per hour, 24 in santa rosa, many of us know when we get the wind, it does not allow for the cooling of the atmosphere. can't sink, can't stick, we are anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees warmer in the areas. right around san francisco, between 5 and 10, livermore and the overnight hours, they had gusts to 30 miles per hour. 52 degrees and san francisco 51. in hayward, temperatures are dropping. we are sitting in the upper 40s. concord, it looks like the winds have increased and concord just an hour

they are going from the martin luther king jr. all the way to his grave sight. >> later today, the man accused in a series of car jackings across maryland is expected to be in court. meanwhile, we're hearing from one of the first victims. 50-year-old henry levi sanders was arrested today. he's expected in aft least five attacks, including the car jackings at the same shopping center in wheaton. one victim was at a hope depot store the sunday before thanksgiving when sanders asked for a ride to the metro. >> drove from home depot and he put out his knife and he said, give me your wallet and give me your money. and i want to kill you. >> he was not hurt. sanders is facing several charges, clus including assault, kidnapping and robbery. he'll be in court from 1:30 this afternoon for a bond hearing. >>> this morning, a woman wanted for bank robbings and car jackings is behind bars. 34ris arrested 26-year-old stephanie schwabb yesterday after she allegedly tried to rob a bank in virginia. officers caught her after a chase on the beltwa

today's "washington journal" live with your phone calls and then the dedication ceremony for the martin luther king jremorial from washington. later, a symposium at the reagan presidential library on the reagan administration's use of intelligence in fighting the cold war. in about 45 minutes, we'll talk in about 45 minutes, we'll talk with the ceo

i recently sat down with shaq in the martin luther king, jr. rnational chapel on the capital of moorehouse college. >> shaquille o'neal says his extraordinary life that began in a rough and tough project in newark, new jersey. recalls his grandmother, mother and father gave him the kind of home that made him feel rich, even though his family was very poor. >> there was a lot of love in the house, you know, she, she always told me to dream and dream big. and growing up in the projects in new jersey i used to dream, dream about stuff that i thought i would never be able to obtain. >> and shaq's childhood dreams, grand visions of being a success in whatever he dreamed of doing, baseball basketball, starring in hollywood movies and recording top selling hits as a rap star. all of those dreams would become reality not before shaq learned valuable life lessons from his mother and his far. he says his parents were not afraid to apply some very tough love when it was needed. they wanted him to stay away from following the wrong crowd, fearing it would l

talk about the new book "political corruption in washington," and monday, the dedication of the martin luther king jr. national memorial. and at 7:00 p.m. eastern, google's executive chairman on mobile telecommunications. go to c-span.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> republican presidential candidate newt gingrich held a town hall meeting in columbia, south carolina today. this is his prior campaign stop prior to the christmas holiday. he's scheduled to resume campaigning on tuesday, december 27, in iowa in preparation for the state's january 3 caucuses. the south carolina republican primary is scheduled to be held on saturday, january 21. this is a little over an hour. [applause] >> how are you? good to see you. how are you? hello, hello, hello! hello, hello, hello! hello! all right. all right. ok. that's very funny. >> let me have your attention for just a moment, please. my name is bill dukes and i'm from columbia and i own the blue marlins and i hope that you enjoyed your dinner or lunch today -- well, thank you, thank you -- let me just move ahead because i know you didn't come here to

paul's december, 1990 political report, for example, called the reverend martin luther king, jr. "a world class adulterer." while the january, 1993 issue of paul's survival report bemoans america's disappearing white majority. paul has not denied that these are his newsletters. he was listed as editor and publisher. but he says he did not know what was in them or who wrote the offending passages which he disowns. >> nobody talked about them for 20 years until they found out that the message of liberty was making progress. everybody knows i didn't write them and they're not my sentiments so it's politics as outl. >> reporter: it's a measure of ron paul's impact here that his mvals are now criticizing his positions instead of ignoring him. aat's a sign that ron paul, while he may not be the front-runner, is clearly a factor here. jeff? >> glor: we mentioned eight days until the caucus, what can we expect this week? >> reporter: bus tours, jeff. they'll have bus tours from michele bachmann, rick perry, newt gingrich and mitt romney all trying to overcome ron ele 's organizational dep

the dr. martin luther king jr. moral to the civil rights leaders gravesite in atlanta. he was reportedly planning a poor people's campaign and occupation before his death. >>> the only suspect in the disappearance of a maryland woman in aruba is finally telling his side of the story. today, gary g. ord, will sit down with "good morning america" for an interview. >> he arrived in the u.s. yesterday. the whereabouts of robyn gardner remained a mystery. >>> good morning, rejecting an appeal an aruban appeals court released gary giordano. he is now in new york for that scheduled interview. we will hear the maryland man defend himself and his own words for the first time. out of jail and back in the united states, this is the first look at gary giordano. in an abc news exclusive cameras captured him making his first call back home. >> let me talk to the kids'. >> instead of heading back to montgomery county, he is now in new york. he is expected to talk about the past four months in a rowboat. he spent 116 days behind bars. he is the only suspect in the disappearance of roby

speak of the lincoln tolstoy gandhi sequence without remembering the next noble link in the chain, martin luther king jr.. i will not in this talk speak about cain but i will quote from him. here is martin luther king jr. speaking in montgomery alabama on march 22, 1959. the world doesn't like people like gandhi. that is strange, isn't it? they don't like people like lincoln. they killed gandhi, this man who has galvanized 400 independence. one of his own fellow hindus felt that he was a little too favorable. here was a man of love, falling at the hands of a man. there seems to be the way of history. the thank god the man who shot gun they only shot him into the heart of humanity. continues king, just as when abraham lincoln was shot, for the same reason that mahatma gandhi was shot, that was the attempt to heal the wounds of a divided nation. secretaries dance instead in second now he belongs to the agents. like lincoln and gandhi, king too when he was shot, frustrated the assassins in tensions. he entered the ages and into the hearts of all humanity. let us quickly notice the link and gandhi similarit

the 16th. that's martin luther king jr. day. organizers will lay out their demands here in washington. >>> a new poll says a large chunk of americans believe the 112th congress is the worst ever. co

the ideals of dr. martin luther king jr. >> dr. martin king died trying to organize the poor people's campaign. occupy wall street has picked up the mantel that was dropped on the balcony in memphis, tennessee. >> the occupy the dream movement will hold their first major event january 16. they want people to leave crutches and prosthetics at the federal reserve to demonstrate how financial institutions crippled the u.s. economy. >>> looks like our weather warmup comes with rain. when those showers move in. but first, a sign of compromise. democrats hint at a concession in their demands for the payroll tax cut. details when we return. >>> the washington, d.c. veterans affairs medical center and wusa9 salute all who serve at home ask abroad this holiday season. >> we would like to say happy holidays to my family in takoma park, maryland. happy holidays uncle john, my cousin, and his wife karen. we miss you and we love you. >>> let's talk about the money coming home in your check. tonight, congressional officials tell the ap democrats may be willing to compromise to extend the payroll tax cut. par

the next day, martin luther king, jr. was assassinated on the balcony of his motel. a new play by katori hall reimagine it is events leading up to his death. it the called "the mountaintop." joining she the playwright, katori hall, kenny leon the director and the two stars, samuel l jackson and angela bassett. i'm pleased to have them here to talk about this. welcome. >>hank you. >> rose: so tell me about the creation abouthis before we bring these actors and directors in. >> well, absolutely. a lot of people always ask me "what is your personal connection to dr. king? you're so young, you were born way after 1968." well, my personal connection starts with my mother. my brother grew up around the corner from the rraine motel and she was 15 years old when dr. king came to speak in support of the sanitation workers' strike. she heard he was going to be speaking in mason temple and she wanted to go. she had never heard him speak before in person so she really wanted to be in the presence of his greatness, she always said. and so she asked her mother, big mama, we called

the mount. i noticed alvita king, the niece of martin luther king, jr. was at the podium speaking. do you think what she said moments ago? >> voicing support for herman cain and telling the story of herman cain, how he really does embody the american dream. how he pulled himself up from nothing, how he survived stage four colon cancer to go on to become a candidate for president. the story of herman cain is also fraught with the potential dark side here that we've seen coming out. you talk about going up the rough side of the mountain, that's one thing. but going up the rough side of the mountain in the middle of a landslide. and it looks like that's where he is with his campaign right now. >> a good point. we notice that he was expected to speak at one point and at one particular time and he's running apparently late or do you think he's getting back on to his original schedule, perhaps speaking at 1:30, about four minutes from now? >> yeah, initially we had heard 1:30 and then they moved it up to say it could be as early as 12:30. we heard that he left his home and perhaps stoppe

that, in another ron paul publication, an article criticized president reagan for assigning the martin luther king jr. holiday. this line read, "we can thank him for our annual hate whitey day." in 1996 when paul was running for congress, democrats dug up other passages from his news letters that he did not deny at the time writing. talking about the crime in washington, again, i quote, "given the inefficiencies of what d.c. laughingly calls the criminal justice system, i think we can safely assume that 95% of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." ron paul defended himself yesterday talking to our gloria bordure. listen. >> so you read them but never did anything about it at the time. >> i was probably aware of it ten years after it was written and it has been going on for 20 years that people pestered me about this and cnn does every single time. when are you going to wear yourself out? >> you know, is it legitimate? is it a legitimate question to ask? >> when you get the answers, legitimate that you sort of take the answers i give. you know what the answer is? i didn't w

they will start their trek at the martin luther king, jr. memorial on the mall and end at king's graveside in atlanta. >>> well, it might be a fortunate thing for herman cain that the next gop debate is more than a week away, but by then the republican presidential candidate could be out of the race, and as fox' doug luzader reports, while he continues to question his candidacy, the rest of the field is passing him by. reporter: out on the campaign trail now, it's all about herman cain's fall and the rise of newt gingrich. >> you are making an accusation, quite frankly, that is not true. reporter: herman cain on the campaign trail and on the warpath at times with reporters. still dogged by a georgia woman's allegations of a long- term extra-marital affair, cain says he will see his wife in person tomorrow and decide whether to stay in a race that is taking a heavy personal toll. >> a lot of the american people are starting to see through this whole character assassination on me, and so those are the things that i am reassessing and i will mak

near the junction of martin luther king jr. way. >> the intersection where this happened was a major intersection in seattle. it's right next to a high school. and the principal of the high school has had problems with students not using the overhead passenger crosswalks. >> officer ian walsh is positioned to keep students from jay-walking. >> there was a group walking a i cross. he just motioned to them saying i need to talk to you. one young woman blew him off and just kind of shoved her hand like i'm not coming over to you. he took her by the arm, no i need to talk to you. i need to see i.d. that's when it turned physical. >> that's also when a bystander with a video camera starts rolling. >> get off of me! get the -- off of me! >> the video shows 19-year-old marilyn levias struggling against officer walsh who tries different wrist holds to get her to comply. things escalate when teen angel rosenthal jumps in to help her friend. >> a boy in a blue shirt grabs rosenthal but she breaks free and gets in between officer walsh and

organizers are planning events across the country on january 16, the birthday of dr. martin luther king jr> the head of the congressional panel that oversees d.c.'s affairs is taking aim at occupied protesters in mcpherson square. they want the interior secretary to explain why they have been allowed to camp there. the square recently underwent a renovation that included new grass and landscaping. >>> d.c. council committees will hold a hearing on a bill to regulate tattoo and body piercing. the bill would require artist and parlors to be licensed. d.c. is one of the last places in the country where they are not regulated. 5:36. 39 degrees this morning. >>> still had anna "good morning washington", we are learning more about the accused gunmen in last week's deadly shooting at virginia tech. what investigators are saying about the gun used to kill a police officer. >> prepared to have more money on hand for future tax rise in the district. we have details on the rate increase. >> adam will be back in to tell us about our ♪ making your way in the world today ♪ ♪ takes everything you've got

article criticized president reagan for signing legislation approving the creation of the federal martin luther king jr. holiday complaining, quote, we can thank him for our annual hate whitey day. again, these newsletters were written in the '80s and '90s while ron paul was out of congress and had several thousand subscribers. a lot of this first came to light in 2008. wolf blitzer asked him about it back then. >> congressman, there's a lot of material there, but let me just try to figure out how did this stuff get in these ron paul newsletters? who wrote it? >> well, well, i have no idea. have you ever heard of a publisher of a magazine not knowing every single thing? the editor is responsible for the daily activities and people came and gone and there were some people that were hired. i don't know any of their names. i do not, absolutely, honestly do not know who wrote those things. >> did you used to read these newsletters? congressman? >> not back then. there might have been times i would at times. i was in a medical practice. i traveled a lot. i was doing speeches around the country. so very freq

article criticized president reagan for signing legislation approving the creation of the federal martin luther king jr. holiday complaining "we can thank him for our annual hate whitey day." again, these newsletters were written in the '80s and '90s while he was out of congress and had several thousand subscribers. a lot of this came to light in 2008 and wolf blitzer asked him about it back then. >> congressman, there is a lot of material there but let me try to figure out how did this stuff get in these ron paul newsletters? who wrote it? >> well, well, i have no idea. have you ever heard of a publisher of a magazine not knowing every single thing. responsible for the daily activities and people came and went. they were hired. i don't know any of their names. i do not honestly do not know who wrote those things. >> did you used to read these newsletters? congressman? >> not back then. there might have been at times i would at times but, you knowers i was in a medical practice, i traveled a lot, was doing speeches around the country so frequently i did not see these. some of these things you read, as

in washington state, a man who planted a bomb along the parade route at a martin luther king jr. celebration will be sentenced. federal prosecutors have recommended that 36-year-old kevin who confessed to planting the failed backpack bomb be sentenced to at least 32 years in prison. and the national menorah will be lit in the nation's capital today to mark the beginning of hanukkah, the eight-day jewish festival of lights. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. tonight be sure to watch brian william with "nbc nightly news." >>> here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. former new mexico governor and u.s. diplomat bill richardson talks about what's ahead for north korea after the death of kim jong-il. and bill clinton and "the office" star mindy share their favorite books from the past year. >>> keep it on this channel for local news, sports and weather. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching. have a good one. [ man ] it's big. responds in a moment's notice. supports in times o

an article criticizing president reagan for approving the creation of the federal martin luther king jrr complaining "we can thank him -- ronald reagan -- for our annual hate whitey day." >> having gone through them, this isn't the worst of it. some incendiary things about people with aids, not able to eat in restaurants with other people, blacks, calling them animals. pretty incendiary stuff. >> these are newsletters went out, subscription, people paid for these. he became very bothered after our gloria boarger brought it up. >> it was published for ten years. if that was 1% of the newsletter i made money off talking about gold stocks, i think are you confused on that. >> well, it's just a question -- it's legitimate. it's legitimate. these things are pretty incendiary. >> because of people like up. >> no, no, no, no. come on, some of the stuff was very incendiary and saying that in 1993, the israelis were responsible for the bombing of the world trade center, that kind of stuff. >> good-bye. >> he says he disavows it. what more do you want? i didn't write it i won't tell you who wrote

monday, the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial. at 7:00 p.m. gle executive chairman on global telecommunications. for the complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we're back with sam goldfarb, a staff writer congressional quarterly. the 112th congress, taking a look back at the legislative year. sam goldfarb, what were the big stories of the 112th? guest: the big story by far was the gop majority in the house. they dictated events for all but the last month or so. they were driving to cut spending and for some on the right, maybe they did not go far enough, but basically that is what the year was all about. trying to shrink the size of government, they did that with the threat of a government shutdown at the beginning of the year, then the debt limit debate, and then during the super committee, and it was just in the last month for so when attention shifted to jobs and trying to pass these stimulative measures like the payroll tax cut. host: the washington post is put together a look at the bills that this co

order where you study the history and the british school and from hitler to henry the eighth and martin luther king jr. and that set so you have no sense of the order in which things happened and there are centuries about which unilaterally and viewer. that seems to me having a sense of time where we are located in the continuum of the 4,000 years of the civilization is important and the most historical phenomena are intelligible if they are studied and remembered in the long border. i frequently say if i'm talking to a relatively young audience tell me which order these things happened. the reformation. the french revolution, the industrial revolution, the first world war but a few jumble them up and presented the average western teenager with those things, a tiny percent would be able to put them in the right order. because that is not the way that we teach history, and of course if you don't know the order that these things happened and you don't see the cause of the connections between them that is a big part of what this is about it's about exploring the causation in the sense i do tell the story

the group plans to take action next january the 16th on martin luther king jr. day. they'll lay out their plans and demands here in washington here today. >>> right now traffic is running smoothly in tysons corner after they reopened a ramp closed for more than a year. it connects westbound leesburg pike with southbound chain bridge road. tracee wilkins joins us live. >> reporter: good morning. they are expected to open the ramp this morning. if you take a look down there, you can see where they still have it blocked off. we've been seeing some movement here. before the mall was built in the '60s, this was the heart of tysons corner, and it's still a major thoroughfare. people were avoiding the area because of the construction on the silver line. now this is a positive change for you. this morning they plan to open the ramp by connecting westbound leesburg pike with southbound chain bridge road. this was closed a little more than a year ago because of construction work on the silver line extension to reston. the ramp had to stay closed as they worked on a tunnel, but

tomorrow on c-span, the dedication ceremony of the new martin luther king jr. memorial of a national mall. president obama is among the speakers. that's at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and each night this week, we're bringing awe a different episode of our series "the contenders." at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow, a look at 1948 presidential candidate thomas dewey. >> next weekend look behind the scenes of the history and literary life of baton rouge, capital of louisiana and home of the l.s.u. tigers. on book tv on c-span2, a trib into the macabre, bloody book said to be in the hands of john paul memory marat when he was assassinated. it only aired once but maybe the most famous political ad ever produced. robert mann on daisy petals and mushroom clouds. it served as the model for the civil rights boycotts to come. historians and participants on the impact of the 1953 baton rouge busboy cots. also toured the louisiana state archives with materials dating from the louisiana purchase in 1803, 1810 document that created the very short-lived west florida republic of louisiana. plus,

this evening police officers took down a tent near the occupy encampment near martin luther king jr. the protesters ask the office a y bake it bounces it was not 10:00 p.m. that is one more officers came in to help. the city did give the protesters a notice that said they must be out of this park by 10:00 p.m. tonight or the police will move in. >>reporter: all we know is that they decided that today was the day for them to move in. >>pam: that was the update from reggie kumar police in berkeley moved in that margin to king jr. boulevard and boston way and occupy cal kama protesters are now being moved out by the police. you are looking at video and we will keep an eye on that and bring you up-to-date as necessary. >>reporter: officials at oakland city hall announced the launch of an infinite investigation into the police conduct during the occupy oakland protests this will take place over the next 90 days when it is complete, the findings will be turned over to the oakland city officials. >> we will see if we need to change the policies, if we get some good recommendations. it all de