the prime minister stated that the palestinian state would have to recognize israel as the nation's state of the jewish people. >> you stated it there slightly differently than i've sometimes heard it. the way i had heard it earlier was that it should be recognized as the jewish state. are you making that distinction because you want to create space for arabs who live in israel? >> yes, but not only. there was -- it was -- the locution is deliberate, the distinction, and the prime minister made it in his speech as well. when we use the term israel as a jewish state, people immediately thought theocracy. it was very important we got across the notion that this was a nation state of the jewish people, and it didn't mean all the jews in the world had to move there, it didn't mean israeli arabs would have any distinction to right. the palestinians are living next door to us. >> but they would have as many of its internal investigation commissions, supreme court that would suggest there is a very sharp in equality between the rights afforded jews and israelis and arabs. >> the israelis are hum

the prime minister stated that the palestinian state would have to recognize israel as the nation's statef the jewish people. >> you phrased it slightly differently than i've sometimes heard it. the way i had heard it earlier was that it should be recognized as the jewish state. are you making that distinction because you want to create space for arabs who live in israel? >> yes, but not only. there was -- it was -- the locution is deliberate, the distinction, and the prime minister made it in his speech as well. there was a sense that when we used the term israel as a jewish state, some people immediately thought theocracy. israel is not a theocracy. israel doesn't even have an official religion. unlike other countries in the world, doesn't have an official religion and it was important that we got across that it is the nation state of the jewish people. didn't mean that all the jews in world moved there. it didn't mean that arabs would have any distinction of rights. >> but they would have as many of its internal investigation commissions, supreme court that would suggest there is a ver

the territorial integrity of states. hese very important tenets and i think it would be extremely good to have more agreements not just with the united states but with other states in the same vein. >> thank you very much. two questions. the first one, i was wondering how concerned you were about the fact that the man convicted of killing 180 americans over lockerbie may be released and how much pressure are you putting on scottish authorities to convince them not to release him, and on afghanistan, there is an upsurge in violence ahead of the elections, lots of reports of fraud. i wonder where that leaves the legitimacy of the results of those elections. >> as the first question, the united states has made its views known over a number of months. we continue to make the same point that we think it is inappropriate and very much against the wishes of the family members of the victims who suffered such grievous losses with the actions that led to the bombing of the airline. and we have made our views known to the libyan go

and be the cadre that wod make it into a communist state. and actually there was a front page story to that eect in the "new york times." jewish d.p. ships are all soviet secret police. and the state department actually -- this was pure disinformation. it turned out to be absolutely untrue. >> disinformation coming from whom? >> from the arab higher -- the arab league and the arab propaganda apparatus and the british and it was completely false. it was proven to be false but they were spreading this and it wa presented by the state department to the white house as accurate, as another reason for why we can't have a jewish state. >> it was kind of countered by weitzman who said well, it's just the opposite. the jews are fleeing the communists. >> weitzman said the jews who want to come in from the palestine, they are fleeing them. they hate them. >> when they recognized israel, what, minutes after the -- >> well, no, they played a bigger role than that. it was a big surprise that the u.n. that they supported partition because everybody assumed

i quote a horrified aid to then-secretary of state kissinger as exclaiming that the united states had abandoned the kurds 1975 algiers agreement when the shah of iran and saddam hussein came to an accord over their border dispute and suddenly iran and american support for the kurds stopped and kissinger replied to this aid covert work should not be confused with missionary work. this is an example -- i cite other examples of other cynicism on the part of soviet union. this is an example of how small peoples, how small countries got caught up in the cold war. i talk in another chapter about how the cold war had an impact on democracy in this region. now, let me start by saying something about a widely held myth about the middle east and it's something i talked about in an earlier book of mine, "resurrecting empire" there never was democracy in the middle east. this is a region that has been plagued by autocracy or authoritarian government. there's a kernel of truth to this. in that certainly since the '60s or the '70s the middle east has been a black hole where democracy is concerned a

it would save the state money. it costs some money in advance beyond to what we would have paid 10 years ago. and whether it get factored would be an explosive question. >> i would certainly live to see the committee ask that of fema. because there's huge dollars that have been spent rebuilding buildings. >> we will certainly ask that, you know, at mercy hospital, would you dare, for example. that's going to be a healthy part of that $3 billion. simply build it back to how it was if you could ever figure that out given what we now know of energy conservation. that's the hottest spot on the map of the united states. it's a hospital. you're going to have -- you're going to have electricity systems running or need them running in the event of an earthquake. it's going to have override x, override that in the other -- anything else you can think of. you're not going to move all those people out again just like that. you didn't move them out just like that before. all of that now is experience that we have. did any of th

we've worked with the state. secretary napolitano has obviously been there. predecessor nancy ward made some significant personnel changes to begin moving forward, to begin that process that often times was seen as state and federal and local government as not being able to move forward. we've been working in our part to get projects committed to move the money and begin the rebuilding of the project that hadn't been in dispute. we've been working aggressively to address those challenges. but i think part of the discussion i have heard that as a state i was very much aware of it is often times in a large scale disaster, catastrophic disaster there are other programs beside the stafford act that can be brought to bear. it works best when it's done looking at what the stafford act can do and other programs such as community block development dollars to address issues. when you look back and say what was with her can katrina in many cases we didn't play good job of looking at all the other federal programs matching those with the needs of the community and oftent

they were going to become part of the united states. it was not necessary for the united states government to declare war. to make that happen. a pig headed paranoid, a stubborn common man never really tried to find out what the other side was. he believed much of persuasion with the territory he can get a nice spot of cash after all his problems were foreign debt and claims against it buy foreign nationals. they began to make noise. then at the border of texas on the rio grande, that leads to santa fe which is a city in texas. that is based oa claim by the texas congress in december 1836 they have no places in history whatsoever. then he started after the annexation of texas. each time the mexican pence would see the light and put their hand out and take the money. and moving taylor's army to corpus christi did not do is of the next spring sent him into the disputed territories that did not do it. finally there's a skirmish between mexican and americans which was enough excuse for both to declare americans were on american soil and a li

the state or come from jalisco, the state. these are people who have migrated to build a better future for their families. all of them, or most of them, have enormously contributed to the american society and the american economy and it is unthinkable to see that the u.s., the main power, the main economic power in the world, disvalues the contribution of mexican laborers and workers. this is not only a good will statement. during our meeting, we handed the delegation the benefits of north america and why the mexican population represents in terms of the population of the united states. the only way to have sustained progress throughout the north american region, especially, is for allowing for the natural economic processes so immigration can happen, this implies the labor mobility that cannot be determined by mandate or decree. this is what we have underscored with president obama during this meet to keep on invoking the protection for the mexican laborers, whatever their migration conditions are in the united states and our

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the real state of the union essays on united states the angry american our commentary on social rage. hobbies, travel in the form of ussr, the mideast and europe. paul, jeffrey sarrabin. >> the statistics that i gave from this quite remarkable 5,500 were recapped. do you believe that the historical account as given by at least two of the gospel writers of the christmas the angels announcing to mary. >> no, i'm not a theologian. >> do you think it's not treating as historical jesus' true history? >> well, i'm a histo historian t know how much historical evidence there is for this. we don't know the historical evidence his yuns go by. >> well,, the row monocatholic church council said you don't have to accept it in it full littoral teerality. >> sure i do. these statistics are from your article. it's on the question of is religion very important to you. 60% of americans say religion is very important to them. 30% that of the irish, 30%, 27% of italians, 20% of germans, and 10% of french say that religion is very important to them. does that kiss appoint disappoi? >> it's welsh. in the n

one of the takeaways is there is no health care crisis in the united states. that is the bottom line here. and that's from the extensive polling being done. >> there is no crisis today. >> we heard the same nonsense -- by the way, we heard the same nonsense, if i may, about it's not today from the bush administration when he decided to spend his political capital on private accounts in social security, which turned out to be -- anyway, turned out. >> do you disagree with all of the big 500 companies who think that long term it is not sustainable? >> i don't take a position at all here. i'm just pointing out some facts that do bear consideration which haven't been in the public arena for discussion, and this congress has been at it for how long? about five months. and this president has been at it for six months. >> i'm going to respectfully disagree with our post, respected host here. our respected and esteemed host and say i do believe almost 50 million people being uninsure sd a crisis. but i'm not sure this is the right answer. >> excuse me. i wasn't clear.

including the united states. >> rose: what is it about the united states, then? >> i think you have very developed science and technology and the management skill and the very enterprising mentality, very creative in the... in work. >> rose: it's an interesting idea. it used to be said-- and less so now-- that one difference in america over the last 15, 20 years or longer was that there was a creativity here, an innovation here that wasn't necessarily at that time or in history present in china. is that true? do you think? >> you mean.... >> rose: somehow there were factors that led to a society being more creative here. >> part of the... part of the... education has something to do with... it has something to do with education. it has something to do with tradition. it has something to do with the composition of the population. united states is a country of immigrants and people very... smart people from all corners of the world that come to the united states and they're living this country and so i think they have taken the best traditions from all... everywhere

part of the state is you were a severe thunderstorm warning. t's check in with tim. >>> some improvement since the last time we spoke. excuse me. trying to wrestle a cough. we're dealing with a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for caroll county. it was in effect for caroll county and frederic county. now it's just caroll county. these storms are rolling through rapidly and carrying a lot of wind and rain and potential for some hail here. in the heart of the storms as we see, i will bring the key of our intensity here, the purples, these amounts show that the potential is in the heart of the storms and it's very, very strong. they're moving through quickly. these arrows put in place to show the direction and the areas impacted here soon. deep run at 8:10. 8:17 bandanna. these are areas along the heart of caroll county. they're going roll through your area here soon. i'll open up the scan, there's a lot following the path. they're going to continue to move up towards york county. york under a severe thunderstorm warning until around 8:30 or s

the argument is there is no conflict pre-emption of state failure to warn a claim just because the fdaroved labeling. justice thomas wrote an interesting concurrence. he said, i do not really believe in it implied pre-emption. if congress wants to expressly preempt state law, it can say so. justice thomas does not believe in applied anything. he does not leave applied constitutional rights, so it is no surprise that he says no implied pre-emption. that means there is an ever- narrower speed spot to try and get five votes on the court. in the descent, they would have upheld pre-emption. it was interesting, because they are strict constructionists. but they were willing to have a more capacious view of pre- emption. just a little bit briefly, the claim was here that advertising of light cigarettes and reduced tar and nicotine were misleading, and addicted smokers went to town with to law, tried to practice. the court again found no preemptions. it is limited to certain kinds of advertising claims, but does not preempt representation here. and the third case of note happened in the last d

we're looking at a map that shows the red part of the states, basically the plains states, texas, oklahomaa. no sprayseurprises. the east and west, new england states and california, very blue or white, which is close to blue in these areas. what is this about the country? it seems to me we're going to see an election next november even that reflects the national map that hasn't changed much since i was a kid. there's not much change. lynn? >> this thing, yes, you're right, the thing to look at though on this map, it still mean that is obama has the coalition of states together that he needs to win in a real if we're looking at down the road and the states on the coast are most supportive for him, hawaii, illinois, the two givens at this point. the popularity is one thing, the job approval is another. i think as he goes ahead, you know, as was just mentioned, in order to have the white house get really worried, i think you'd have to see his likeability go down drastically, as well as have a problem with job approval. he could tabling one hit, he couldn't take two. right now, his personal r

we have to confront the surveillance state. the next conservative government will scrap the database up children's details. we will scrap the id card scheme and remove innocent people's records from the dna database. we will enhance personal freedom and limit the state's power over us. redistribution of power means increasing our power over the state. that means advancing political accountability. again, information is power. information allows people to hold the power full to account. this is never been more true in what we call the information age. the internet spreads ideas and information all over the globe in minutes. it excites the attention of hundreds, thousands, millions of people and stores them to action. constantly accelerating technology makes information infinitely more powerful. we have seen this in the situation in iran. every time the iranian state has tried to choke the flow of information to dampen down the protest, people have turned to technology to share and access information. when the state cut of the tex

. >> major budget cuts in the state of maryland. the workers losing jobs and the way it would affect the services you use. >> dry day tomorrow. and then big changes. tracking the storm brewing in the atlantic in the sky watch forecast. >> and the damage one diet pill could cause. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news at 10:00. >> 2009 h1n1 will pose more serious health threat this fall. >> thousands dead, millions infected. new concerns after dire predictions for the swine flu. >> it is a flu that spreads quickly. that got me nervous. >> safety at schools. and preparing for an outbreak. >> hello, i am jennifer gilbert. >> and i am jeff barnd. predicted tens of thousands of americans could die from the flu virus this fall. white house panel said swine flu could send 2 million americans to hospitals. the virus could kill between 30,090,000 people. 1 million people nationwide have already gotten sick. and infections may rise as school begins. a vaccination is being made right now as we speak. first r

the u.s.'s 50 states. they must compete head-to-head, and justify whatever money they get. >> this competition will not be based on politics, or ideology, or the preferences of a particular interest group. instead, it will be based a simple principle. whether a state is ready to do what works. >> question: president obama has an education reform package. does it foster competition between the states? or facilitate federal control over education? pat buchanan. >> it will do both. i mean the states will compete for the federal money expect that will give the federal government a whip hand here. but john this is a drop in the ocean. 4 to $5 billion in terms of the enormous education budget, state, local, federal we have got right now. george bush's no child left behind. i'm a bit of a cynic but test scores have been dropping since 1964 in this country. sometimes up a little bit. basically the trend line is down. the collapse of the family, the culture has affected this. you know, -- from kids coming to school

these are all programs that the state mandates local governments to run. ker thinks the decision to borrow and take money from local budgets was just wrong. >> we are the state's arm to be the safety net, and if they're taking money away from the safety net, the state no longer has a safety net for benefits. >> legislators said they had no choice. state assembly member tom tollakson wrote the law allowing the state to get local money. >> in an emergency, the state couldn't borrow money from cities and counties -- they were detached from cities and counties so that $2 billion borrowing that i would rather not have done but in this emergency it helps us avoid further devastating cuts to schools. >> but the counties argue the cuts to them are devastating as well. contra costa county already was suffering because of a decline in revenues from both property and sales taxes. it is a county with some of the wealthiest enclaves in the state, like orinda, whose residents may feel the loss of library or park money, and some of the poorest, like richmond, a largely mi

welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a special program for you today. i spent some time with hillary clinton on her longest trip as secretary of state through africa. and in nairobi, the capital of kenya, i sat down with her for a wide ranging conversation on everything from iran to her relationship with barack obama. and, yes, i did ask her what her husband was up to in north korea. >> you famously now compared north korea to an unruly teenager, demanding attention and you said i'm not going to give them that kind of attention. but didn't your husband do precisely that, give them the attention they sought with this extraordinarily high level visit, they were demanding attention and he gave it to them. >> hillary clinton continues to fascinate, even in her role as america's chief diplomat. and there is a good reason for it. it is extremely rare to find the chief political rival of a candidate has been offered a high post in his cabinet. that might be a feature of the european political system, but in america, it i

we know that the state cannot just let go. the right power balance is something that has to be constantly negotiated an adjusted. we will always be aware that those judgments, however small and insignificant mac on their own, can change the character of their country. the conservative government would ask two was central questions -- does this action enhance personal freedom and does it enhance political accountability? at the heart of our program would be the intent to change the balance of power between the citizen in the state said that ultimately is people in control of the government and non- government in control of the people. we will start by putting back into place the protections of personal freedoms that labour has taken away. today you can wake up in the morning in your own bed, in your own home, hear a knock on the door with an official with one of over 1000 reasons to let the state going to your house. the authorities have the right to come into your home to inspect your potted plants for pests and checks the regu

-- between china and the united states, the united states most powerful weapon, maybe you have a president now who is the son of kenya, as hillary clinton mentioned. and that gives -- you know that has a real resonance in terms of actually trying to affect change over there. a continent where it is very hard to affect change. >> we're going to have to leave it there. because we have run out of time. david andelman, thank you very much. nikhil deogun, thank you very much. time goes by too quick. >> thanks, martin. >>> finally tonight, if you think you've had a long week, we want to take you to a small corner of the world where hard work only begins to describe what's involved for a group of men who toil on the indonesian island of java working in a volcano. there they mine sulfur, that's an essential mineral that we all use for many things that we all take for granted like fertilizers, insecticides, gunpowder and matches. step vaessen of al jazeera takes us inside of their world. >> reporter: industrial landscape carrying twice all of their work on their shoulder like gigantic ants scraping

of the themes that keeps coming through, from state employees, is the notion of closing all of state government. around holiday times. and in order to allow people to plan and also to save more money by being able to close all operations on the same day. >> the governors office is trying to find $400 million in budget cuts by labor day to balance the budget. >> meantime federal stimulus funding ear marked for maryland could save you money. $51 million will go toward green programs like providing energy grants and low interest loans for energy improvements to residential and commercial buildings, altogether it is expected to save $370 million in

it was a fairly naive view of the state. ng reforms from the executive by itself by command and control methods in which these reforms are reverted or don't produce the results you were expected to produce in various sectors that we deregulated and in which they are not as efficient as you expected. the concentrations that you were fighting. so the mix of reforms that didn't go as deep as they should have gone back fired, a very complex period in the economy that is characterized by stability but not much else. that is the scenario for the crisis. the crisis in 2008 really occurs in a most unfortunate situation. by and large, the authorities have done the best they could do. the response of central bank and the ministry has been competent and responsible. there is little room for maneuver because there's a deep underlying structural weakness which is fundamental to what happened in mexico, there's a major physical problem. it has been able to tie along because there is consensus for stability keeping core expenditures below a

this is the united states of america. i hate that you have to say the words you are saying, but all we can do is try our best to get through these plans for you and your family. remember when i said. you are dramatizing what i said before. i am sure that if you had a choke this -- have a choice, he would rather have your family have health insurance than you have it. and i understand that. i get that. but i do not want you to have that choice. we are dealing with difficult forces. and when we talk about small businesses, about half of the folks are either the families or people who work for small businesses. they do not have insurance because the premiums are too high, the cost of insurance is going up faster than their paychecks. so you are talking about money coming directly out of your checks, and when you are being denied certain services, it is not unusual for people to call and say, you need to help me. man, they will not give me this, not that. and we've got to fight. we can do better than that. i think that is basi

state employees are not the only ones that could lose pay. state aid to local government is being cut. gigi live outside of city hall. >> reporter: good morning. now that the state has cut its budget, now local governments like cities and counties looking for ways to save. one way may be to cut jobs. >> all oppose? >> $454 million approved to be cut out of maryland's state budget. with most coming from state agencies, 29% from local government and 11% from state employees through furloughs. >> you have a job today and none tomorrow. >> we're facing the same problem familys are facing. >> how to make up the millions cut from state funding. baltimore loses $35 million in state aid. >> it's a huge hit. this is with the motor vehicle revenue we use for the roads and streets and operation and transportation, this is the third cut this year. >> on top of the budget cuts, the city dealing with its own short fall. some workers will laid off. >> it will be very soon but we want to make sure that all of our bank holders are engaged in the conversation.

this is amazing, this is the united states of america? and now this has become more civilized in recent years. and so, when i felt recently at berkeley, this was not the fault of the students -- fell recently at berkeley, this was not the fault of the students. . or inviting me today, and i thank all of you wonderful people for coming. and again, i am challenging the young people, go out there and be leaders. be active in the political process. maybe you will enjoy it as much as i have. thank you. thank you. [applause] caller>> there is nobody in amea more deserving of a lifetime achievement award phyllis schlafly. may god bless you and your family for many years ahead. thank you all for coming. save traveling. god bless you all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> president obama wrap up a summit yesterday with mexico's president it felipe calderon hinojosa and canada's prime minister stephen harper. they spoke about climate change, trade, and swine flu. yeste

and maybe he was the most unlikely tourist in the united states. and in reality, my question, of course, he was the leader but after the staal and tyranny he tried to change this world and he was elected as a party leader he was not a part of the year because it is only one pty there is a spectrum from the right to the left from one party and it is like a president you can change the systeme tried to do it. >> he asked them and then the president answered it will be against our constitution and he said you can change the constitution because you are popular for a third term. [laughter] >> guest: that is a good example why i refer to him as a dictator maybe by the standards of the stall when russia he was not a dictator or a benevolent dictator but by american standards he was a dictator there is an illustration of why i say that. win khrushchev was being driven around los angeles one woman dressed in black carrying a sign that said death to take five butcher of hungary and he turned to henry cabot lodge the ambassador to the wind and said what is th

he was educated by the united states army. not die in iraq, but on the streets of washington. he was bashed in the head because of this gender preference. not only that, when people say that people are shoving things down their throats, did they think that although that heterosexuals are the norm and most of the people who talk about this, they go back to paul in the bible. but when man said laws such as in england for all of this begins -- and that is a matter of record, why is it that that is still rampant in england -- two men? most of our laws come from england. i do not understand "shutting it down your throat" means that because you seize someone who happens to express a desire, whatever they express, like kissing, or display of affection -- why should that bother you if you have a heterosexual wife? if i'm in a nightclub and two men are there with each other, and you have to take him outside when you leave and bash in his head? thank you for letting me make those comments, but i'm getting upset. people need to stop and

you know the shape more small states are in. wever, one of the things they're looking at, and i know you'll remember this is number one, giving the states the flex ability to manage to do eligibles. people eligible for medicare and medicaid. if we manage them we can dramatically reduce costs. secondly, the clawback that was put on each state for the >> mike: let me do a little housekeeping here because a lot of our viewers don't know what 'clawback is. that's the piece where it went medicare part d. took the cost of the prescriptions, the federal government said since the states are getting a benefit they would take that money back, caught it back. sort viewers don't think we're having shoptalk year. >> each state pays a significant amount. >> mike: that maybe is the point. mrs. clinton cost more money. is there any dispute about that cushion mark can we agree that the matter what we do if you start insuring more people and covering more people, this is going to cost more money in texas are probably going to go out for most every

was the governor of the state. so we have our problems, too. >> now, there were some people here in this country who didn't like the sound of that, including our own king of the morning, joe scarborough. let's listen to what he had to say. >> hillary clinton, the secretary of state of the united states of america, is overseas and she suggested that the governor of florida, jeb bush, rigged the election for george w. bush. i was there. that is an unfair, slanderous assessment. >> roger simon, referee this one. unfair slanderous assessment? >> this is kingsley law. you get attacked when you speak the truth. the only criticism you can make is jeb bush didn't steal it very effectively. he should have done it by a lot more votes than he ended up doing it. i really don't see the problem with this. what went on in florida is historic fact. you can make the case that it went beyond jeb bush to one vote at the supreme court. he might as well people in foreign country it is truth about democracy. doesn't always work perfectly

i was already there in the united states. that had been sent practically the ink dried on the declaration of independence. and xico, i think the stresses of the war in a postwar period finally create a mexican national identity, which revolves around by the way i interpret your waterloo than, who revealed to an indian that you look like an indian, but in early 1820s tooker over because she supposedly represented them. they were, with their white spanish catholic heritage and they were born in mexico. but by the end. and i have the thing right describe this change, but the way the war, the treaty was signed, they were trying to hold onto their power at the top. and they were willing to give away half their country just to stay there. they had more troops at the end of 1848 out fighting their own people in these rebellions and ever put in the field in united states. and the ones who are rising up and a few indians like torres, get the idea maybe we could do a little better, and at the end of this one chapter i say the virgin was

i know there was talk about fat in state and local budgets, but a lot of the growth or cost of state local budgets come from things that they cannot control, like health care costs and pensions and the rising prices of gasoline and other things. the increasing match in medicare and medicaid has been incredible physical relief for states at a time when health care costs and needs are rising. the demographics are increasing. it allows them to, in some ways, plugged those deficits and think about where they spend elsewhere. it was very important. >> the second question, to the extent i understood it, was whether or not the program that we are describing is complicated by design, in part because it goes to the question of how much is parochial pork that might not have been the best thing to have in there. the claim is that it is a pork- free bill. but, you know, that goes back to the old saying that one man is worthy project is another woman's pork. who wants to take the question? i think it is a good one, because the public, so much of the public's in view of this is shaped by is it por

we'll showcase the best of today's "state of the union." for here in the united states, fareed zakaria gps starts now. >> this is gpt, the global public square. welcome, everyone. i'm fareed zakaria. i followed hilary clinton, secretary of state, in nairobi. i sat with her and talked about everything from iran to her relationship with barack obama. >> you compared north korea to a teenager demanding attention, and you said i'm not going to give them that kind of attention. didn't your husband do precisely that, give them the attention they sought with this extraordinarily high-level visit? they were demanding attention and you gave it to them. hick continues to fas nature, even in her role at chief dip lo malt, and there is good reason for it. it is extremely rare to find the candidate has achieved a high rank in the cabinet. it's rare. one has to go back 150 years to find a parallel, and the parallel is quite striking. then the republican party's front runner from the state of new york, a seasoned politician with much experience, was willi

. >> on the 18th, the state must reply. on september 30, a hearing on all the motions will take place with the trial now scheduled for november 9. >> we will just have to wait and see. they have 30 days to come up with some creative motions. >> it is possible it could throw out the new calendar off. >> there is continuing coverage of the new indictments on our website. you can read more on the charges she faces and review previous reports on her case, and the one against helen holton. >> it appears that men could be forced to dedicate more money that covers state employee retirement costs because the value of maryland's public pension fund has fallen more than 20% over the past year. at its peak of 2007, they had $40.9 billion. as of june 30, the system had shrunk to $28.5 billion. do you have any bright ideas about cost-cutting? governor martin o'malley is still looking for ideas on how to balance the budget. he has so far received thousands of replies. david collins is live with the details. >> the governor has already car

what's it really do for the united states? >> here we see the vast difference between how the clinton administration dealt with north korea and how the bush administration dealt with north korea, at least in the first four years of that administration when bolton was a senior official. his policy there was no point in dealing with north koreans because it is not negotiated and he implemented that policy with the help of vice president cheney and others and we saw almost no contact for many, many years and now president obama was elected on a campaign promise to ten gauge countries that we don't get along with. specifically north korea and iran. he is implementing the policy. we don't know if it will work but we know what happens when we talk to north korea, they built up their program an got farther and farther away. so the people in the obama administration would say that bolton had his chance to implement that policy. it didn't work and now we are trying something new. >> we are looking live at the picture from burbank, calif

those with the two states. f you look at the percentage cut in the tax rate on the highest bracket it went from 91 to 70 so that is a 21 percentage point cut. you divide 21 by 91 and you get a 23 percent cut in the rate. and by cutting the lowest rate to 14 percent that is a six percentage point cut/20% is a 30 percent cut in the rate so we cut the highest rate by 20 percent and the lowest rates by 30 percent. in the one thing you to understand on economics is people don't or to pay taxes. people could give a damn what the taxes are and they worry about what they receive net after tax. it is that a rate that is the incentives of the tax rates not important, is the after-tax return that is important and that we take you in the after-tax return of the beginning of the kennedy administration. if you is in the top bracket for every dollar that i made a $0.91 in taxes was allowed to take 9 percent news that $0.9 per dollar that was his or her incentive for earning income in the tax brackets. when kennedy cut that rat

the brunt of the cuts are happening in the state's health department. concerned are you about the way the cuts have been made and the fact that the health department is so adversely being affected in light of the report to the president from his special advisory council that h1n1 could possibly result in 30 to 90,000 deaths across the country, happening mostly among young people? >> i am concerned. although i do think that our centers for disease control and our state department and health have laid out a plan for handling h1n1, making sure those who are the most vulnerable get vaccinated early in the process. we are all concerned about the cuts that have to happen at the state level. i think the governor has really had the challenge of dealing with a tough national economy and a tough state economy. we are trying to wrestle with that. we have seen some glimmers of hope as the president describes in the economy. new home sales are up. we have seen leveling off of the unemployment losses and we will look to see more of that and i think we are beginning to

behalf of the state of delaware. other one of our panelist is daniel horowitz. he has been a renowned california criminal defense attorney for the last 29 years. he appears often as a legal commentator on cnn's nancy grace show, on msnbc and fox news and another television programs. he has tried over 200 cases, the jury trials as a defense attorney. he has been a member of the and a lecturer for the two main california defense attorney organizations in that state. he has taught at the california death penalty college for defense attorneys and he is hammell 27 death penalty cases, eight of which went to trial and two were dismissed. only when added 27 receive the death penalty. unfortunately on the 15th of october in the year 2005, his beautiful wife, pamela, was murdered by a 17-year-old juvenile. the juvenile was convicted and sentenced to life without parole. our finals the cure is cully stimson. he is the senior legal fellow here the heritage foundation. prior to joining care taji was a deputy assistant secretary o

the search for suspects. >> the maryland state fair starts this weekend. a lot of people want to know if they should take the umbrella. >> that makes it hard on the roller coaster. >> from saturday afternoon into sunday things start to improve, but until danny can go through, the threat of showers will linger until midday saturday. and they look school, and comfortable weather for most of next week. >> you start school, and temperatures go down very comfortable. >> it looks ok. warm and muggy, but ok. >> nbc nightly news is coming your way next. your way next. oh yea, well for 6 months, customers get all three: fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month. oh, alright, see... you're just moving your fingers, aren't you? i gotta cut my nails. (announcer) now get three amazing fios services for the price of two. tv, internet, and phone for only $79.99 a month for 6 months. plus a free multi-room dvr for three months. record shows in one room--watch in another. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v and get fios tv

. >> even if you haven't paid your taxes the state is willing to forgive you, ron matson is live in the newsroom with details of a just announced tax amnesty program. >> the program is a win for the state and a win for messengerrers, the state gets the money its due and taxpayers get to clear their back taxes. those who owe back taxes will have from september 1st to october 30th to pay back what they owe free of penalty and interest approved. the holiday applies to income, sales, withholding and other taxes. mary, back to you. >> this really seems to work, the state's last tax amnesty back in 2001, collected 39.5 million in revenue for the state. >> fire crews are facing a day of scorching heat, humidity, and struggling to contain at least 11 wildfires, two firefighters were killed on duty this weekend. dozens of homes and camp cabins have already been destroyed and more are threatened. >> a massive wildfire doubled overnight and is heading toward a vital communication center for the los angeles area. firefighters say they are powerless to stop it. >> it's note a matter of, when it will

the state or come from jalisco, the state. these are people who have migrated to build a better future for their families. all of them, or most of them, have enormously contributed to the american society and the american economy and it is unthinkable to see that the u.s., the main power, the main economic power in the world, disvalues the contribution of mexican laborers and workers. this is not only a good will statement. during our meeting, we handed the delegation the benefits of north america and why the mexican population represents in terms of the population of the united states. the only way to have sustained progress throughout the north american region, especially, is for allowing for the natural economic processes so immigration can happen, this implies the labor mobility that cannot be determined by mandate or decree. this is what we have underscored with president obama during this meet to keep on invoking the protection for the mexican laborers, whatever their migration conditions are in the united states and our

of the themes that keeps coming through, from state employees, is the notion of closing all of state government. around holiday times. and in order to allow people to plan and also to save more money by being able to close all operations on the same day. >> the governors office is trying to find $400 million in budget cuts by labor day to balance the budget. >> meantime federal stimulus funding ear marked for maryland could save you money. $51 million will go toward green programs like providing energy grants and low interest loans for energy improvements to residential and commercial buildings, altogether it is expected to save $370 million in energy costs. and reduce carbon emissions by 2 million tons. >> another beautiful sunny day out there today. >> it was wonderful. and the heat and humidity did not let up. >> yeah. >> here is meteorologist jessica starr with more on the sky watch forecast. hi jess. >> it was a great day outside. >> it was. >> beautiful summer day. and good news is that it will stick around for the weekend. so if you have outside plans this weekend or head to t

the disaster. homes rather than of expletive to a particular state or community. we must therefore reevaluated the role of the federal government as well as the fema's authorities, policies and regulations that presume federal assistance is always supplemental. regardless of the disaster. the safra and to existing authority and systems where the russians use and disasters that the country will face is are so detailed and time proven that this landmark statute provides necessary base for additions or revisions if needed to however defined it is treated teaches that capistrano disasters are complex, unusually large and a fax, hard to predict and expensive. moreover there are distinguishable because had they require months rather than days or weeks were coming months in the and probably years and will rather than days or weeks to move from a response to recovery inevitably there for the subcommittee cannot avoid the question of whether new extraordinary authority should be given to the presidents of the united states in advance and whether congress should provide an w

and the united states. we will have a precedent of saying, come into the u.s., you get free medical care, we will not check who you are or whether you're here lawfully. this would create a further precedent of what i call medical tourism. what would happens that someone could enter the u.s. either eelly in the future or as a tourist who hat a significant medical condition that requires health care. they could then declare themselves to be eligible for these programs, enroll in this public option, begin to receive medical care without ever being checked as to whether or not they under the united states lawfully or eligible for these programs. i believe under this legislation we will draw the seriously ill from all over the world to begin to come here to receive free medical treatment, and once you hook these individuals up to the dialysis machine or whatever it is, we're very unlikely as a society to pull the plug and say, get out of here. it is absolutely mind-boggling pre precedent that is being established

shepard: they do still have buses in the united states. god forbid something happened where injustice could not serve any more, but if something like that happened, how does this process move forward? is a tradition that the president would replace a conservative with a conservative? >> absolutely not. with the 60 democrats, they will replace that person with a usefuyouthul, intelligent liberd this will be given they have been waiting for. all those votes -- presumably, it would go of the liberal way. this would be the colossal battle in the past 20 years. it will make what one of your soon guests went through look like a playground. shepard: he is our guest, next. tlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. u5+. what heals me? girls' night out. and for damage from acid reflux disease, my nexium. announcer: for many, one prescription nexium pill a day can heal damage to the esophagus that acid reflux disease may cause over time. and nexium can provide 24-hour heartburn relief. headache,

you know the shape more small states are in. , and i know you'll remember this is number one, giving the states the flex ability to manage to do eligibles. people eligible for medicare and medicaid. if we manage them we can dramatically reduce costs. secondly, the clawback that was put on each state for the >> mike: let me do a little housekeeping here because a lot of our viewers don't know what 'clawback is. that's the piece where it went medicare part d. took the cost of the prescriptions, the federal government said since the states are getting a benefit they would take that money back, caught it back. sort viewers don't think we're having shoptalk year. >> each state pays a significant amount. >> mike: that maybe is the point. mrs. clinton cost more money. is there any dispute about that cushion mark can we agree that the matter what we do if you start insuring more people and covering more people, this is going to cost more money in texas are probably going to go out for most everybody? >> there's no question about that in