so they are a defensive -- they -- as long as they are defensive resistant organizations they maintain as soon as they look like they are invading israel or let's say crossing the border in defense of the palestinians when the palestinians themselves are not fighting they are going to lose a lot of the support they have on the lebanese street from people who today add mire them. >> rose: admire them because? >> the heart of hezbollah's community and the people that really surprised me over the last four years when i kept going back again and again to these border villages, they actually share hezbollah's entire ideology and share a religious conviction and share a end time strain of think a islam and share a desire to fight against israel and share a desire to build a better islamic society inside lebanon, so these folks who are really the rank and file that have given hezbollah its cultural momentum, they are -- they view he hezbollah as the overall framework in their entire life from how to raise their kids and what kinds of jobs to seek, all the way up to when is it appropriate to s

acoustical till they came when they knew people had. they came to steal it but they kill people to. never stop doing that oh they come into the area they steal the cows the goats. because they don't that identically colton anymore no they don't come here because we're well protected here. at home i know this is their protection a handful of civilians commanded by a soldier poorly armed and ready paid they too sometimes extort money from the miners. for the precious mineral is heated sifted and carefully packed before being resold to local dealers. well boats and i think. if it's discussed ten dollars yes. ten dollars for a small tin of colt and yet several days work for a minor. we. there are a few roads so every plains of the usual way to take the coal times of the town's. bukavu airport is the hub of the region's mineral trade. inquisitive people are not popular here with filming with a hidden camera the planes make. daily trips to the mining zones to supply them with food and equipment we joined one of the flights. the pilots are well paid each flight costs two thousand five hund

else and kind of getting out so they were whole i think they did a lot of things they should be ashamed of. >> charlie: well, list them. >> primarily this is a firm who's first core principle is our clients come first. our clients' interest come first. guess what, they took full advantage of their clients to shove lousy securities down their throats and basically did not tell them what they thought of the securities and they did so knowing knowing they're whole goal was to reduce their exposure to risk and lay it off on their own clients. do i think that's wrong morally wrong, yes i do. >> i think it was ethically wrong of wall street to buy up mortgages, package them up and sell them off to investors saying they were doing due diligence saying they were investigating the mortgages that were as build when in truth they weren't. i think that's a problem. i think it was wrong of mortgage brokers to people to encourage people to lie on their applications so they could get mortgages. and i think it was questionable for regulators in d.c. to look the other way as they heard story after story

they cannot put me on trial in madison in wisconsin, so they took me to the south of carolina, and they put me on trial in strom thurmond federal courthouse in charleston, south carolina. across the street was the confederate cemetery. from the courthouse, they flew two flags -- the u.s. flag and the confederate battle flag, which was the state flag of south carolina. from the court room, i could look out the window and seaport sumter in the distance -- see fort sumter. they put me on a case with no marijuana. they invented imaginary marijuana. they said i was charged with conspiring to contribute 10 tons of colombian marijuana. i pled not guilty. i had a jury trial. i was found guilty on one account, acquitted on nine. i had an appellate case and the supreme court case. i was then facing 15 years. since may to nine. when i went to federal prison, i did time in eight different states in nine different federal prisons, including four penitentiaries -- that is a maximum security. including the united states penitentiary at marion, the first super federal max. that is on a marijuana conven

they just don't get it. they are a business. they have a business plan. they are owned by three members of one family. [chime] upholding this determination and beginning to find them so it costs them money to break the law is one of the ways we will get them to get it and obey the law. president peterson: another speaker. >> the academy has been stressing the city along for five years. a have been on notice repeatedly that they are out of compliance with the law. the notice of violation is dated june 22, 2010. they just want to push it off. the city is spending enormous amounts of money trying to inspect all of their buildings. and they are finding all kinds of violations. the city is basically pissing away money on these people because they are not going to comply with the law. you have to say no, upholding the determination. if you don't, there will never be an end to this. there has to be some finality. you conduct hearings. you closed public testimony, that is not the end of the issue. there was a hearing in. they closed the hearing and it is effectiv

if they move out of there they are a target. and they are also expected to defend their area. they do not, their education suffers. their ability to get a job suffers. when we talk about bringing serves and breaking up the cycles that's what we are talking about is breaking up the cycles. but also getting involved in the pta it really brings resources networking resources to those parents that have those children in the schools. and you will give them a step up in life. you will give them an economic step up in life. and you will give them a confident step up in life. that's what you really are accomplishing by getting involved with the youth. having the police officers spend a lot of time at the back pack give aways and them spending time at the bbq's. you think why are you sending officers to the bbq the da will have a festival at the african-american culture center on the 22nd. i'm sending officers to bashing bq and hand out hot dogs and be around. they will be the security but an invisible security and be participating with them. and we are sponsoring our of our station fu

financed it, they planned it, they build it, construct it, and they maintain it. i think that is the logical route. and is paid by the community's -- and is paid by the communit ies, and also from the state department. [inaudible] >> in the netherlands, if a road is really bad they will fix it. >> ok, there is a question in the back. >> our director of public works was in the back. he has a real problem here. maintenance is a huge bill. we do not have the wherewithal to maintain what we have. putting in new facilities increases the cost. then when you bring in different types of facilities -- >> we see a lot of the european- style traffic patterns with intricate paving stones and beautiful designs and then we get the response, we do not have the maintenance budget, we cannot maintain these. how do you get around that so you could say this is the actual cost? >> it is an integrated part of running the business. it is the responsibility of the mrs. pawlenty -- it is the responsibility of the municipality and it is the responsibility of the taxpayers. if we build a n

they... they had arrested the person they thought had committed the crime and they... they didn't investigate the case anymore. they thought they had arrested... arrested the one person who had committed this crime. >> narrator: the case was closed and weeks went by. detective maureen evans left the force for another job. detective ford was dealing with other cases. then, four months later, startling news-- the results of danial's dna were back, and they did not match the semen left at the crime scene. >> now, they had a choice to make-- either williams was not guilty of th, was not involved in the crime scene, or he had to be part of some sort of weird conspiracy. >> instead of objectively looking at the case and his involvement and figuring out, "what does the dna tell us?" they assumed he still had to have been involved, but there had to have been somebody else. >> narrator: they kept the dna results secret, and went looking for danial's accomplice. they picked his roommate, a fellow sailor on the uss saipan. his name was joe dick, jr. >> when i heard he confessed, it was just something th

they are idiots. what they are saying is they are going to screw over everyone's vacation to make some symbolic gesture. don't these people have lives? >> i don't get it. some feel being exposed in public have envigorating. i think the problem is for some it is humiliating to be exposed naked, and it is useless. that's the terrible thing about it. i would like to see a more sensible policy where every young olive-skinked male is pulled out of line and water boarded, and if he admits to being a terrorist we put a drone up his nose. >> interesting, but it is not problematic. summertime is no fly zone time for me. >> i am considered olive-skinked, like ireland i am considered olive-skinked. people often say all of the stuff that is going on at security is all for show and no effectiveness. if you buy that, do you think this stuff is worth it saving lives? >> well, i want to know what about people like me who want to get groped while we get scaned. we would like to pair it up and post-it on youtube. it is

they probably wish they stayed out.y lost to the cowboys and they have been struggling and have a new head coach. they won at 33-20. >> for over 100 years, the mission of the ywca remained steadfast with women, children, and families and to eliminate hatred and prejudice. now you can help. they are holding a fund-raiser and you can still attend. kelly ramirez joins us to talk about the event and the word for the wise. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a huge event. an annual luncheon at the santa clara county convention center. >> correct. >> it's open to the public. >> absolutely. >> you are expected to make a big donation. >> we are asking for a minimum of $150 per person. >> that money goes far. so many different services. >> absolutely. we have a number of departments we do rape crisis and domestic violence and youth services and child care and counseling services. >> it helps in so many ways. also at the event, i attended before and luckily i get to be a part of it and i'm excited about that. you always have grea

they can get rid of those. they clogged traffic. they are crazy. i think what this does is get this back doing some of the innovative things. there are several important clarifying amendments that clearly defined what student housing is and is not. they have been playing a game where they think they are housing units, but if you leave the school, you have to leave the housing. this clarifies the. the one situation -- the one point i made is that we include the right of private action to enforce this. we do it like a residential hotel where we define who has that right, and you say it is a non-profit fed has in their mission preservation of affordable housing. -- that has in their mission the preservation of affordable housing. you want there be a way to make sure they stay on the straight and narrow. i would be happy to answer any questions, but i support the legislation. >> is that in there at all.

they were big, they were heavy, they needed a lot of ammunition, they looked, in fact, were often times considered to be artillery. and the evolution of this weapon was that it arrived in the sort of final stage of effective miniaturization. how you went from a 2,000-pound item that would concentrate rifle fire to something that would be down about under 10 pounds, maybe even close to 8 fully loaded and that you could hide it under the jacket that i'm wearing if you took off the stock or you had a folding stock. then you hook this thing up to a planned economy so there's tens of millions of them. then the goths that planned that economy turn out to be in the main largely brittle. they fall apart and lose custody of the guns, and that's how you're in the situation that i saw when i got to afghanistan in 2001. and that's, charles, how i got started. >> now, the number, i believe you're estimating something like 900 million -- 100 million ak-47s of various vintages are in circulation today? compare that to the number just in terms of establishing the market economy comparison to the m-16,

, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so

but the reality is they said they would commit and they committed.e we are, and they did exactly that. the local hires i think are without precedent of any big project in this city. this is real on the destruction inside and the permanent jobs that are being created. that is a pretty extraordinary thing. 211 or so jobs. 88% are just from in and around the area. it is an extraordinary story. i'm really proud of lowe's. we are not jumping up and down four big boxes. we will be candid. we love the sales tax. this is a big deal. but we are sensitive to what big stores do. because you guys are so good that some of the little guys can be threatened by it, but this location was the right location. this boulevard needed the economic stimulus, the anchor. look at all the fresh paint across the street. it did not always look like that. you are going to see in the next few years this boulevard take shape. if lowe's continues to be the employer they have proven to date, a lot of families will benefit because of the jobs created because of this, so thank you for

are earmarks as bad as we think they are? as we say they are? >> as eleanor points out earmarks represent less than 1% of the federal budget. in terms of actual money reel i -- relative to the budget we're not talking about a lot but they are important symbolicically, the gateway drug to more and more spending. the reason the g.o.p. did this, first on the house side, mitch mcconnell was dragged kicking and screaming to an earmark ban on the senate side, it's because they finally got the message, that the american people want the spending rein in and cut. a lot candidates went back and said look at all the pork i brought home. don't you love it? most of the american people said, actually, no, we don't. earmarks are the victim of an unnecessary rage or disappointment. you build a bridge, that bridge is going to affect the surrounding areas, maybe for miles ahead. it's not going to be only in your state, barring the one in alaska. did you have a land in that? >> no, i was up there. >> when you were campaigning for president? >> they should have bui

they stalled the process they did accounting fraud to make like the loans were paying out when they weren't so that they wouldn't have to buy them back from ambac and i seriously have to wonder if ambac would have been in a situation to have to go bankrupt in the first place if it wasn't dealing with the project j.p. morgan started right well of course back in the twenty's before the crash of twenty nine morgan j.p. morgan was involved in the stock pools which was a massive accounting fraud that contribute to the crash of depression in america in the thirty's so here you have a reconstituted j.p. morgan basically engage in the same kind of accounting fraud perpetrated on the folks in america but there is no pechora commission there is no f.d.r. there is no pushback there is no rule of law what i would do the rule of law in america terry ball you nailed it now i think that we have a huge serious problem what's more interesting is that i realize that this is really their sterns they e.m.c. who started it committed the fraud but then for j.p. morgan to continue to allow it to happen wh

they will change how they earn. how much they earn. when they receive the income.ey will change all of those things to minimize taxes. john: most of us won't. most of us will say i make a little less but it is not enough to make me move or stop working. >> maybe you. but i moved from california to tennessee because of. john: donald trump says, of course the rich will leave. >> they will leave the united states. i know these people they are international people. whether they live here or in switzerland, doesn't really matter to them. john: you haven't left. >> i haven't left yet. john: are you going to leave? >> big story if i leave. if i leave new york that's a big story. the rich people are going to leave. you are going to end up with lots of people that don't produce. then that's the end. john: are we in a death spiral with no hope of return? no say some. we can fix this. i'll show you their plan, when we come back. john: is america going to hell in a hand basket. will government feed the takers until the makers are crippled? that's been the trend. now there is s

they have money, they can buy weapons, and they have control over the territory where they are. so, yes, they have humble peasants joining into the guerrilla. because for them it's an upgrade in the conditions of life. but they don't fight for the poor people. they use, they use them to just, you know, kill and get killed. but the hierarchy in the farc shows that the ideology that they predict, that they, you know, speak about is not the way they live. i saw a hierarchy of privileges, not of sharing. i saw people wanting to be a commander because they would have money, because they would have better conditions, more food. the luxury of the jungle. the luxury of the jungle is not a maserati. the luxury of the jungle is chicken. but that's the luxury. and for a chicken, you could die. because that's the way you will eat better, and that's what they will have. the guys will have the most beautiful women in the jungle. that's power. that's how they use their power. so, i'm sorry, whoever thinks that the farc is leftist, romantic revolutionary organization, wrong. wrong. they're doin

they have now been given special rules and they are going to be 2:they ar -- they e given a pass.ly if they were terrorists they could just fly a plane into any building and they could be treated differently. as long as the terrorists are willing to kill themselves we are in a game that we struggle to win. >> reporter: as a rock red conservative, are you offended by what the tsa is doing? >> not really. there might be better ways to do it. in holland, they have some scanner less revealing and works as well. >> chris: i have seen it on tv and it looks like a cartoon character as opposed to the very graphic scanner we have in this country. >> i think it is tough. i tried to actually think this through in the last couple of days and it is not easy to do say do what they do. they have ten mill air passengers a year and we have 600 million air passengers a year. >> and you can't have individual interviews of all of the air passengers which is what the israelis do. people say let's do profiling. we do have secondary issues. the nigerian who buys a one way ticket and stands on his airpor

they weren't anxious to get into a conflict with great written that they felt they had to defend their liberty, they had to defend the government they had known american have to do it not just for themselves, they had to do it for their children and their grandchildren and future generations. and they say in my book that i think it is 1774 in the united states of america, john dickinson was polite. a supine people were not defend their freedom but there is one way it is vastly different than it was in 1774. unlike those in 1774 we have the greatest constitution never written which they wrote for us. we of the declaration of independence which they wrote for us which enshrines the natural moral law as the credo of the united states in america and there are no foreign parliament trying to tell us what to do. we have a system of representative government where we can control the government and decide their destiny by going out and voting and changing the people who are governing as today. thank you very much. i would like to take any questions you have. [applause] >> thanks. i was the fir

are they safe?efore you light up, next. >> gregg: smokers trying to kick the habit are increasingly turning to a substitute electronic cigarette, the e-cigarette and they run on batteries and contain no tobacco and julie tried one, what a couple of hours ago. >> julie: i did not! i had a makeup artist who happened to have one, i was curious and i did try a puff -- >> gregg: you did. >> julie: you are calling me out on national t.v. there is a new study that says if the e-gecigarettes may pose dangers of their own, and, medical "a"-teamer, dr. marc siegel. i'm not a smoker but i wanted to test it and one of my makeup artists is trying to quit smoking and figures that nick teen is the lesser of two evils, between nicotine and smoke which causes cancer and, is it not a better alternative if you cannot kick the habit. >> not yet, it has been around since '03 and invented in china and they are having trouble regulating quality on it. so it is always the same thing and the fda is concerned about that. the

and they decided to go to a place where they thought they could. they happen to meet there. they got married. had there been a great migration it wouldn't even be here. i don't know who i would be sitting here, but it wouldn't be me. in the same goes for you as well. they were seeking. the idea of a kind of political asylum that the people were seeking is the kind of thing -- a different way of looking at what happened with a migration that occurred within the borders of our country. within the borders of her own country, there's an immigrant experience that was not unlike that of people coming across the atlantic. and that's my goal to show how much we have in common, how we have so much more in common than we've been led to believe. these people bore up under incredible is just to make the decision to leave. and my goal was to try to understand why would they up against and how did they make the decision to leave and that the reader would be able to put him or herself in the mindset of these individuals and be able to say to themselves, what would i have done if i were liv

have they settled this internally before they move forward, should they?i think what the democrats will do is buy a vote during the lame-duck, everybody in america getting a tax cut up to $250,000 of their income. it looks like they are not going to bring up the vote for the tax cuts at the higher levels of income, the democrats don't believe we can afford it in this time of economic trouble and hi-def sits. this is responsible fiscal policy i think it's the right thing to do. shannon: do they go ahead and push for it, let and fail and have everyone have a tax increase january 1st simon if they don't get the votes. >> i think they will get the tax cuts up to $250,000. i can't imagine the republicans will be against giving tax cuts to all americans. it's outside of their stated goal. i don't think where we'll find agreement is on above $250,000. if the republicans want to do that when they come into office in january they are welcome to go ahead. shannon: jason is this a game of senate chicken? >> i suppose. you know we had an election a couple of weeks ago

they figure out the cause they want to give money to.r maces are a more low to the ground process, which have become a lot more transparent over the last few years. tough send in an application. you have to meet with legislative aides to make your case. sure, there is room for corruption, but i think that you can reform the system, rather than scrapping earmarks all together, which looks good. it could be politically popular, but wouldn't actually do that much to accomplish your goal, which is reducing spending. >> chris, you made a lot of good points. not buying it. cut them and let's see how it turns out. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> some illegal immigrants are getting cheaper tuition than u.s. citizens. why is that? we'll explain ahead. and why are people renting out celebrities to pose as family members at their weddings? [ k. tyrone ] i'm an engineer. my kids say i speak a different language. but i love math and math and science develop new ideas. we've used hydrogen in our plants for decades. the old hydrogen units w

i knew where they had come from, what they were experiencing and how desperately they wanted to go back to the lives the to the forced to leave. and it was a few years later the price started the palestinian rights campaign and if you know, it was funny because i was involved in antiwar stuff and remember speaking at a rally about vietnam and somebody from the jdl, why are they letting the arab speak? i was of iridescent but i felt that arabs were people from over there and i was an american. once i started a campaign it was over. i was like the arab guy. it is like a gay person coming out. people don't look to the same anymore. that is what was happening to me. i was proud of who i am come still am, wouldn't do anything different in my life. the work i do is important and i feel good about it. >> host: you're going to take a quick break and come back in just a couple of moments. >> "after words" with james zogby and barbara slavin continues. >> host: jim, we were talking about how you got into this. now you started in the early 70's, and this must have been an incredibly challenging ti

they can't use it? i would ask the planner, maybe it was dropped because of that state law. it is not owned by the church now. why don't people apply to have that landmark in the first place. and apart from that, even the church that is still owned by the methodist church is still subject to supervisor maxwell: -- ceqa, so forth. they are trying to convince the church people that it isn't. one of the things that has happened is that some buildings have been preserved. it is possible to actually re- use these buildings, prevent demolition and not actually trashed the building. the same thing -- they have preserved a senior housing, i am sure you are aware. [chime] supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i don't reside in the fillmore, bubut i have been going to the church since 1976. i raised two children in that i lived over there. my kids went to catholic schools. i did everything i could to be a part of the community, and is so hard that if somebody could

were they chasing the driver before the crash some. >> they were saying they were trying to pull this man over on interstate 580 westbound here in oakland. he was speeding and they had lights and sirens on, but it was a short pursuit. he got off the freeway and ended up here at 10 sixth and mac arthur. they are saying that he was speeding. he was supplying about 90 miles an hour down mac arthur. they stayed about a quarter mile back when they got on sur face streets. this was about 2:00 a.m. witnesses describe an incredible scene. they say you could hear the tires squealing as he came to the intersection. he didn't slow down at all or see what was coming at him. >> as he was coming this way, he looked towards me as to maybe give a slow as he was running from the police and right as he turned around, the young late or maybe two were coming here and he never saw them. as a car it impact and blew up. >> the driver had to be pulled from the burning car. the chp said he was taken to the hospital here in oakland where he died. there was one person in the other car and that person was killed

they now felt that they were ahead by 35 to 50. both were deflated the canvassing board met him he was up by 46. and then a couple more cleaning house happened and he was up by 49. ally is joked that he was glad it wasn't 51 because people wouldn't have trusted his numbers. [laughter] for me it was a real moment of truth that i think i should listen to marc elias because he might be right. and the coleman team so we don't know what these numbers are coming from. a mouse another revelation really to the franken side that the team didn't know where these numbers are coming from and that gave them a boost. and then the absentee ballot issue heated up. i think we saw another key moment for me as a minnesotan and really one of the big surprises of the recount for both sides that had to do with fairness and there were two guys who i think -- two men who stood for that during the recount and what was chief justice back soon but it was marc ritchie, secretary of state. and i don't say this because i like either of them are no either or car

so if they cared about the middle class they would extend that. they would find ways. again, cut on the defense budget. do away with the earmarks. make sure, show the american people that you are trying to do something for them. host: more regarding our topic this morning. extension of unemployment insurance or reducing the deficit. this from the atlanta journal constitution georgians suffer if benefits expire. they talked about congress failed to extend unemployment benefits which moves christa anderson one step closer to sleeping on her sister's couch in smyrna. my shouse fixing to go into foreclosure. i'm in arears on oall of my bils who fretted thursday her benefits expired. legislators left friday without extending benefits for an estimated 2 million americans who depend on the checks to keep the lights on and food in the tpreupbl including anderson who lives in buckhead. you can read more about that in the atlanta journal constitution. elk hart, indiana. caller: good morning. i believe that they should extend the benefits. i was watching c-span the other day and

they think this is a case they can make even for a republican congress. poverty in has decreased by 1/3. unemployment is trending down. there is 8% to 9% growth. what is the main on securities? 73% of palestinians say security forces were for the palestinian people. their graduation exercise is attended widely by family. this is something that has more and more by the end of the public. 63% say they fl secure in their own town. according to the commander in 2007, there were 700 shooting incident in 2007. in 2009, it was down to 19. this year, we thought the number was even lower. most import lane is the corporation -- importantly is the corporation. the training is done in the e iman -- yemen area. there is not been one case and then using firearms against israelis. they have been reopened. you have heard me before. this has meant that preachers who were agitating for suicide bombs have been removed from mosques. it is an effort to start reforming the colleges where they train them. this is an important mosque initiative. it is one the most important part

they did not want to be part of this. they did not want to make a deal.the word went out. >> you had the senate leadership in mitch mcconnell and john kyl saying, "don't get involved. this is going to be the president's waterloo. it's our way to win back the congress." >> narrator: and as the summer wore on, winning grassley over became harder and harder for baucus. >> the process, particularly in the finance committee, just felt like that race that was being run, starting on january 20, all of a sudden hit some mud, and people's shoes got pretty... pretty soggy and pretty heavy. >> everything kind of bogged down. i mean, here we were on this... this march to produce this bill and at least get it through the house floor before the august recess, and all the wheels came off. >> narrator: impatient, emanuel began a campaign to convince the president to change course, to scale back their ambitions. >> rahm emanuel is all about, as he says, putting points on the board. just get a deal and get it over with. >> rahm was the guy who was skeptical about trying to

they also say they didn't find out just how serious the fire really was until they got off of the ship yesterday in southern california. >> just now they actually told us there was a fire on the boat. >> you did not know there was a fire on the boat until now? >> yes. >> so what did they tell you why the boat suddenly stopped on your excursion? >> they never told us what the issue was. all they told us was there was smoke. there's lots of smoke. >> what they told us on the ship was it was a flameless fire, and i don't understand what that means because wherever there's smoke, there's fire. they say the aft motor had caught a fire, i guess, said it was electrical wires that went out. and eventually that got into the forward engine which then cut all the power to the entire ship. that's what they told us was a flameless fire is what they told us. >> in a few minutes we'll be joined live by two passengers onboard that cruise ship. one of them was staying in a cabin directly above that engine room where that fireless fire started. >> flameless fire. >> whatever it was. >> that's a little s

so the same thing goes you know, they need help, they have an illness and they need support. if i told you i was in recovery, what does recovery mean to you? i, i think you're really trying to get, get back on the right track and, and i would certainly pray for you and hope that you could stay there and get better because recovery is very difficult you, first of all you have to admit that you need the recovery. and then when you recover, it takes, it's a long process. i think when a person says that they are in recovery and they're trying to get over their addiction, one must give them a chance and believe them. recovery to me is a first step, just because you're in recovery, that doesn't that mean that you're going to be recovered completely. so, but it's the first step for you to get to where you need to get to be able to say, i used to be that. if, if you're telling me that you're in recovery, i'd say that you are trying to get your life together and that you have a serious problem and that you're, you care about becoming a better person. somebody was trying to get into re

that is what they do. that is what they do. i have seen marines out of the military prison -- i have seen them in leavenworth dying in solitary confinement. marines. because they got aids or hepatitis c. convert visn's into what i call residential treatment centers. -- convert prisons. knock down the gun towers. take down the razor wires. inspired the corrections officers, the people with badges that make $150,000 a year -- inspire their asses. [applause] i am all for the union. i do not like their union. what you do is you rehire people back as correctional workers. what happens is in a state of california, where somebody needs help because they contradict or alcoholic or have a bad temper and they are going to be of their wife or sexually assault her stepdaughter -- whatever their problem is, let's do something about crime before they commit the crimes. they have this urge to do something illegal. they call the police and say, "i need help. i'm drug addicted. an alcoholic. please help me." right? they are directed to this tre

a lot of people dieted before they got on the cruise so they could eat until they were content. the splendor had a fire in the aft come apartmentment, the ship lost its power, the ability to cook and serve food, air conditioning, restrooms and toilets stopped working. the "uss ronald reagan" delivered some 60,000 pounds of food, canned spam, canned crab meat, bread, milk. not what folks thought they would be eating. they got back to port yesterday. they jumped off the boat. many said they couldn't wait for a hot shower, a hot meal. now they apparently have had it. >> where do we stand on the investigation about why it happened, miguel? >> reporter: originally the ntsb was going to head the investigation. but the vessel is registered in panama. panama officials are on their way here with carnival cruise line officials. that may take a few days, maybe weeks until we have a cause for the fire. >>> a woman wasted no time capitalizeding on the doomed cruise. she is selling t-shirts. people snapped them up. 20 bucks a pop. a lot of the passengers and a carnival spokesman said no one w

what are they accomplishing? if they do find a bomb, what do they do? do they simply blow themselves up and kill people in the airport itself? that is my comments. host: to buses, metro, railroads, and they won't care if they miss your plant -- train. this is a tweet we have gotten. frank in cambridge, massachusetts. democrat. caller: peter. i travel twice recently. the first time, i went through the scanner. i was conflicted because i don't like the whole idea about the x- ray. the second time i took the pat down. i agree with one of the other callers, they treat you like a criminal. when i went to the skin of the guy said step through and then he grabbed me by the chest and said stop, wait a minute. then he dropped his hands and said, ok, go ahead. what i heard recently is that all of the bombers have come from overseas. abdulmutallab, heat came without a passport. all of these things happening coming into this country from overseas. why are we putting people through these scanners, and the whole idea about chertoff being involved with the company tha

say they would not change anything they did. that is astonishing to me. if you know that the promise for going to war was wrong and then you say "i had a reason anyway and it was ok," that does not fly. >> there were a couple of good reporters for knight bidder who were riding regularly that there was no evidence. >> what is so interesting about the tour he is doing is that it reminds us why the country actually like him in the early years of his presidency. when the war went south and went bad, the opposition to the policy transmuted into an intense, widespread hatred of the man, accusations that he let us into war, a criminal, a torturer, etc. you see how affable and he said he is. he has not said a word about his successor, and this is a successor that spoke ill of him over and over, even in the inaugural address, references to how horrible were those eight years when bush was sitting a yard away. what is interesting is that he is not interested in re-entering the arena. this is not a guy who wander from young age like obama

where are they now? ken lay are in his grave although people don't think he is. >> jack skilling is in prison, although his conviction is also on appeal at the supreme court. andy fastow is still in prison as well. >> i want to run a brief comment about how you felt five years ago. we will talk about your new book. >> i have become more cynical than i would like to be about corporate america and whether people live up to their responsibility that being a corporate citizen entails. our american system makes it possible for people to make great sums of money, boards of directors, corporate executives. i am not sure that that commensurate level of responsibility comes with that. i think the corporate culture has been corrupted by this get- rich-quick notion. make your quarterly earnings estimates, get stocks to go higher, get your options in the money, and cash out. who cares what happens next? i see that pretty frequently. i think that is just -- that is really terrible, not just because it is a betrayal o

i think most likely they didn't want to sit down at the white house because they don't know what they believe yet. that's going to be a problem with them when it's time to govern. a lot of the people that turn to them for change are going to find out they really bought a pig and a poke. >> to that point, cutting the pentagon in these opposing messages from senator-elect paul and senator mccain and mr. mccain notwithstanding, do you think this is one issue that there actually might be some compromise on and that something might actually get done in terms of at least taking the pentagon off the list of sacred cows? >> well, perhaps. remember, we've had three days with three kinds of almost examples of schizophrenia among the republican party. first they say they want to extend the bush tax cuts but want to cut the deficit. next they said we want to cut earmarks, but we don't trust the president to do the spending either. i don't know who's supposed to make the allocations. today they're fighting about whether you should be cutting defense. i think there's a lot of room where a lot of de

they don't stop and consider the fact that they may be multibillionaires but they keep putting money in the business and the business grows and it hires more people. if you are so hung up on the fact that somebody is filthy rich and you're so hung up on the fact that they may be having more fun than you are and you've got to tax them into the dirt, you're not going to have any jobs. you can't have it both ways. if you want job, you have to have healthy businesses and you can't have healthy businesses if you tax them out of existence. excessive taxation is going to be a job killer. the insufficient liquidity if you run your banks and have bank regulators all over the banks they can't get money to invest in new things. economic uncertainty. let's say you own a business, you've got lots of money tied up in it. are you going to take a big gamble when you don't have any idea what next goofy policy the administration is going to come up with? what kind of additional taxes and are red tape and bureaucracy you're going to face? no, you're going to hunker down and say, wait a minute, i'm not

they have said as clearly as they can that this is what they want us to do, and they will be watching mr. president, i yield the floor. >> why did senate minority leader endorse the earmarks? >> he was under pressure from the right wing of his party and jim demidnight and pushing here to get support for the earmark ban approved. it was really just bad politics for mcconnell. he knew if he backed the proposal, that he wouldn't get the backlash he would that he otherwise would have from the tea party wing of the caucus, and he knew that and he has a new ban of freshmen, 13, that want to reform the ways of washington, and earmarks are an easy target and hard to defend even though there's not much wrong with the earmarking, but in the end, mcconnell decided politically it made sense to jump on board. >> why do you characterize it that way? >> mcconnell is a big time earmarker. he sits on the appropriation committee and gets hundreds of millions of dollars to send home on projects things on military basis, medical research to the local universities. he had defended the practice even in the