. -- even theodore roosevelt, who has an empire -- -- an ambiguous record. there are people who kept it alive, like earl warren, who had a change of heart. tavis: let me ask you anyway, because i want to be fair to both sides. paul ryan, and there are those things that people say about him. lambasting his plan. but he, more than romney, more than obama, more than biden talks about the issue of poverty. he gave an entire speech about poverty in america. he has in his own way of dealing with the issue -- he has his own way of dealing with the issue. i wonder whether or not there is something to appeal specifically to him about why social justice matters, talking about the poor, raising the issue of poverty, even though he may be wrong. >> i think it is mostly lip service, to be honest. his voting record in congress is entirely about cutting budget priorities that help the poor. you do not see him supporting raising the minimum wage or supporting labor unions. you do not see him supporting expanding the earned-income tax credits or giving more money for public

william ward iii and frank theodore williams received sentences friday. the two are members of an alleged black guerrilla gang. neither will receive the of parole. the accused trigger man in the case has not gone on trial. the big day in baltimore, the 12th annual under armour running festival. 11 news jennifer franciotti is live in west baltimore with a look at some of the last-minute preparations. how are things going down there? >> things are quiet this morning. we've seen a lot of cold people walking around. we are at the start line and let me tell you when i say it's cold, i feel like i dressed for patrol this morning. i'm wearing five layers of clothing. i have gloves on and soon you'll see me in a hat because it's chilly. as you mentioned, today is the 12th annual under armour baltimore running festival. 24,000 participants from 24 different countries and all 50 states. the kenyan runner, steven juang, will see if he can reclaim his title from last year. the top purses for the men's and women's marathon, $25,000. there are five different races toda

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. >> reporter: 10-year-old theodore wasn't fooled for a minute. >> i think that would have more salt on the white bread because mayo has more salt than other condiments. >> reporter: but this was all about taste and if they would actually eat the low salt option. what do you think? you seem to be enjoying both. >> i think both of them are great but the blue, it has this really good, zesty taste with the mustard and the chicken. it's amazing. i love it. >> reporter: everyone who liked red better raise your hand. three. blue? okay. three -- you like blue better. it's a tie. with the group split over which lunch they liked better we moved on to some of their favery snacks like cheetos. frito-lay who makes and bags them with cartoons on front tells abc news they're committed to responsible and ethical marketing practices not to market to kids 12 and under. we swap the original flavor cheetos. 250 milligraps per serving. with these lightly salted potato chips. oh, 85. >> big difference. >> about a third. we're talk same aisle of the supermarket, same category of food. not talking about go

now mother teresa, nelson mandela, theodore roosevelt. just a few who have won the nobel peace prize. now you can add the european yen -- union to that list. the award comes as many countries in the union are facing economic hardship. not everyone is in the mood to party. gavin hewitt reports. >> the nobel peace prize is to be awarded to the european union. >> there were gasps of surprise in norway. the un is facing violent protests. but the prize honor the eu for the atmosphere of peace and reconciliation for the last six decades. >> i did not expect it to be such a good day. it is with great emotion i received the news to award the global peace prize to the european union. >> the european union emerged from the barbarism of world war ii. when the berlin wall came down in 1989, the u.s. acted as a beacon for democracy for countries that had been under soviet rule. but the nobel committee's decision is controversial to some. in the falklands, the eu failed to act to save lives. >> i think it is a statement about peace in your. i think man

teddy, as in theodore roosevelt one the race in football. how about the tigers getting the sac right here. and recovery in the end zone. wilson crushes roosevelt 52-6. i think it's revenge for a playoff march. and if you missed any of tonight's highlights, log on to wusa.hsshigh school/dc. and that's going to do it for the usa high school game night report. we'll have post game reaction once the game is done between the nats and the cardinals. for now we leave with the music of wooten's high school band. see you later. ♪music playing

where is theodore. >> doesn't take it personally when he runs off and doesn't thank him. >> row row rowour boat. ♪ row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream ♪ >> after college when you enter adulthood you quickly learn life is about 9:00 to 5:00, bills to pay. according to the makers of an l.a.-based web series it's also about things like a pillow you've really been wanting to buy or nice quiet night at home with boxed wine or netflix series or this. >> sus & i got a new trash can at target over the week. i thought we would get something inexpensive until we saw this. it was $25. susan was like in a month you won't miss that $25 bucks and we'll still have this awesome trash can that will be our trash can for years and years. i thought, she's right. it's going to look way better. after a couple of months i probably won't even remember it cost as much as i did. >> no one tells me growing up sucks. >> that's what you have to think about day to day. >> really depressing. >> it's sad but we can relate to it. >> it's a dark but hilarious

both parties -- theodore roosevelt on the republican side. franklin roosevelt pa on franklin rooseveltr on the democratic side. kennedy and johnson. we have had that to face down the powerful interests. president obama had the mandate to do it in 2009, as we have been discussing. i do not think he did it the way he could have done it. i am hoping after the election he will see that america needs is so much, the leadership to actually move beyond the vested interest right now, that he will take that as his personal legacy need as well as our countries priority. tavis: out in paperback with a brand new preface -- "the price of civilization." written by jeffrey sachs. jeffrey sachs, good to have you on this program. we appreciate your insights. thanks for your time. >> thank you so much. tavis: thanks for watching. >> there is a saying that dr. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to complet

theodore roosevelt was pretty smart. >> the dumbest? >> that's a tough one. john f.t fair to grade anyone even poor old james buchanan unless you sat behind the desk and opened the mail. so warren g. harding was not such a gligt but magnetic personality, good looking. he was a movie star. so you're seeing his cabinet play out. howard dougherty was a real person. he was an attorney general and he was very, very corrupt. >> in your book you've given four a pluses. one went to abraham lincoln. six fs, one went to george w. bush. what criteria did you use? >> the a pluses up to me are presidents not just that they did great things but they elevated the presidency in some way. george washington obviously, lincoln and the crises they faced. lincoln the greatest crisis, franklin d. roosevelt. theodore roosevelt didn't face a crisis but elevated the office to what it is today. he put this office and made it the international spotlight that it is. >> he didn't take the nickname teddy because he thought it was actual gar. >> and wanted to take the words god in trust off the mo

one of the players on the team decided to use it theodore roosevelt to help inspire the team. it took a passage from the teddy roosevelt speech and said moments before the game, he picked up the microphone and began to read some of the words from that speech. some of those words are very powerful. a lot of the players said as the speech was being read, players filed into the clubhouse and listen to the words and started cheering each other on. they said it looked like a scene out of a movie. tedd;'s words helped the team win yesterday. we hope it will help them win tonight as well. >> inspired by the greatness of the nation's capital, thank you so much. 6:36 and two adults suspects accused of beating an analyst are heading to court today. the have a preliminary hearing. the wife will be there as well. he was robbed and critically wounded in that attack. he still suffers from severe brain injury. we have the latest on the meningitis outbreak. health officials have not tracked -- and now track down 12 of the 14,000 people who might of received shots. patients will need to keep w

opening the great lakes to traffic again had been on the drawing board since the administration of theodore roosevelt and eisenhower -- eisenhower took, assumed the presidency in a time of mccarthyism and incredible communist witchhunt. he did it as he did so many things in the background. it was eisenhower orchestrated the army's response in the army mccarthy hearings. i'm not going to get into a contest but that stunk. and when it was over mccarthy had him vanquished but i think it was the desegregation issue perhaps in which eisenhower most often underestimated. president truman had ordered the army to be desegregated in 1950 but the that the army had not complied. 85% of the army was still segregated when i had to power. ike ordered the military services to desegregate and of course this was a new supreme commander whose words they immediately obeyed. he culminated the segregationists of will service and after brown versus board of education, and he ordered the integration of the central high school in little rock and the demonstrations there which blocked the desegregation eisenhower o

this is a book about what happened, and it's true, when thomas roosevelt, theodore roosevelt had booker t. washington, the first african-american to have dinner at the white house. and there was a big scandal about it. it was quite something because he had -- he invited booker t. washington to the white house for dinner. >> so this is all the ins and outs? >> and how he did it and why he did it. then our favorite, dolly madison. you know her from the ice cream. >> yep. >> all know that she was the one that saved george washington's portrait from the war of 1812. this is all about her and how she worked things. she was quite a politician on her own. so dolly madison. then if you really are getting a little tired of all the real life things, get the dirt with fiction. so there are two books by political insiders that are just great. the gq candidate. you get a lot of inside scoop there. and then the second book by miss wallace, who worked for george bush and was part of the mccain campaign. and she has a book about a female president called it's classified. that's good. you can read betwe

conservation history but i like the wilderness more than conservation, but i did the wilderness warrior on theodore roosevelt, and then the quiet world, on saving lack wilderness, and now i'm writing forester in chief, franklin roosevelt, the ccc, and wild america. i'm looking how fdr and gifford-pinchot got two billion trees planted through the youth car in the 1930s. so i'm waiting of the death bowl. everglades. >> we were indicating before this interview, you were telling me you spent seven hours with neil armstrong. >> guest: i did. i grew up in ohio, and i don't have time to get the detail but i go to be do the official history for nasa right after 9/11, and he doesn't like talking, mr. armstrong, so i was able to burn some tapes with him, which i'm very proud of. rosenthal, an editor of news week, tune out about and it i wrote a little piece -- a long piece in "newsweek" about neil a remember strong, and my university rights, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of john f. kennedy challenging america to go to the moon on the campus i teach. and kennedy said we go to the moon because it's there,

jim, since you were so tickled by our video yesterday, of theodore running and winning his race, i thought i'd bring you some different kind of video today of cars. because i know how much you love the classics. >> i'll take all of them. every one of them. >> this is downtown silver spring, out front the headquarters of discovery communications. it's the one-year anniversary of the show velocity. that's a cool show if you've ever watched it. it's all about exotic cars and classic cars. so the weather held out. and it was perfect. a lot of folks, little kids, they loved the motorcycles. classic cars. that's a look at what was going on. that was a one-day event. >> so we can't check it out tomorrow when we have another nice day. >> no. but you'll have to catch the show on discovery. >> any of them for sale? >> i doubt it. >> okay. >> you can ask. >> in your price range do you think? >> that's a whole different story. >>> president obama and governor romney moved on after their debate. but somebody is still on damage control. >>> a new plan that could change the way the d.c. fire department r

theodore, were you coming up to the interview in a brand new plane, landing gear equipment.fog and ultimately had to drive the rest of the way. you got to feel like you're a bit snake bit here at the moment. >> i know. i'm wondering what i did to deserve all this, but it's -- you know, it's all experience, and you have enough exposure, you get kind of control the experiences. teeth brother was shut down and we had a bit of a gyro issue with the aircraft, but very minor compared to our story in the gulf. >> was one scarier than another in terms of, you know, facing an emergency like that? >> you know, i would say the gulf incident was pretty scary. being on fire, there's nothing like that. >> so talk about that. you're flying along. you're over the gulf. you start to see smoke and fire behind the instrument panel, right? >> yes, and in the nose baggage area. basically we were flying around, eating a back of m & ms, checked in with houston center and we see a little bit of smoke which typically is not a huge deal. usually a radio will smoke a little, throat electrical power of

sure of any other presidents who have been a scientist in the way that theodore roosevelt was.protect. >> that might be it. >> moments frozen in time and preserved for generations to come. no doubt teddy would be proud. now the hall has been partially closed off for about a year and a half. the grand opening is tomorrow with a very big celebration. matt, it's your chance to come back here and see if it's as magical as you remember it when you were a kid. >> i've been there a lot. one of the rainy day favorites in new york city. thanks very much. appreciate the report. still ahead, how hold is too old to go trick-or-treating? that's the big question. up next the olympic ice dancing team of merrill davis and charlie weis on the rink. that's >>> this morning on "today at the rink," meryl davis and charlie white, the ice dancing duo burst on the scene in the world stage in 2010 winning the silver medal at the winter olympic games in vancouver. two years later they have won ten straight grand prix events, including skate america just this past weekend. meryl and charlie, great to ha

he was the vp under theodore roosevelt. look at this. >> is he from the bull moose

fittingly, as one of the the practitioners, theodore roosevelt who presided at the dedication of sheridan's 14-foot high equestrian statue in washington in 1908. president roosevelt told the crowd that besides being a dash and cavalry leader and a great commander, share dan also, as he put it, showed his greatness with the tunnel touch of originality we call genius. [applause] >> be happy to take any questions. imsure there's some. yes, sir. >> you mentioned that there was little historical focus has been placed on him. why is that? pretty amazing. >> ways, it is. there's a very good reason for that. all of his papers were burned in the great chicago fire of 1871. he was -- at the time he was commander of the division of the missouri, and he had moved the -- that district to chicago because of the railroads going through there. and the great chicago fire wiped out the headquarters. so we don't have that much to go on. you have to -- i was forced to really rely heavily on people that served with him and they're auto buying -- autobiographies,d he wrote his personal papers after that point. s

theodore roosevelt said we should have public funding out of the treasury. if you look back at the supreme court in the citizens united case, you see a court that has two dare -- very different views over what is happening. we have your view which is a perfectly respectable view of the aspirations that there will these -- will be these independent groups speaking and saying what they want to say. it will be fully disclosed and it will not be corrupting independents. then you have the minority that caught the reality of most of the spending this year. their view was that this would be funded by giant corporations with specific legislative interests. that is why they will give so much money. it turns out it is not fully disclosed. it turns out it is not for individual candidates. it perhaps crosses the line to corruption. it is interesting when i talk about corporations, think of international oil companies when the majority took to the corporations, they talk about the corner hair dresser who happens to be incorporated. it is dependent on which end of the tel

diana carlin, theodore gutgold and nichola discuss olympia snowe, barbara mikulski and of elizabeth dole and why they have not been considered contenders for the presidency. this is just over an hour. >> thank you for coming out tonight. great to have you back. great to have you here as new friends. let me start tonight and ask you about your book on nine women. how did you select those nine women? >> the best answer is we could have looked at more, but within the confines of the vote you can only do so much but we want to diverse city. we want the democrats and republicans, two parts of the country, everyone of different ages. we knew on the basis of nine, make generalizations that are 100% certain and our collusions are hypotheses -- we needed a fairly diverse group. >> we also included women, the white house project in the election cycle -- a libya snow and kathleen sibelius were in there. we also wanted to consider this notion and several years ago, which last round of madame president, talking about looking at women governors. we wanted to look at women governors who have been throu

reacted to barack obama, he does not seem to be lack fdr taking on the economic loyalists or like theodoreoosevelt, fighting the guys he says are taking the country down. how do you explain obama's attitude toward these plutocrats? >> barack obama in many ways is one of them. he is educated the way a plutocrat is educated. he had an opportunity to join the plutocracy. he could very easily right now be a top corporate lawyer and they know that. he thinks the way they do. he's a technocrat in the accepted matter of the plutocracy. and i think they like that. i think that's why he has such a strong reception in 2008. i think that's one element. another element, though, and i think this is something that sort of bothers them is, he isn't over awed by them. and that kind of bugs them, too. because they do think they're pretty great. >> to answer your question about why is he -- why doesn't he take the sort of attitude of an fdr or teddy roosevelt? i just think barack obama has surrounded himself with people like larry summers, like bob rubber and he's accepted a lot of justification and argumen

>> diana carlin, theodore sheckels and nichola gutgold examined the qualifications of nine women in politics. that includes olympia snowe, barbara mikulski and elizabeth dole and why they haven't been considered as possible contenders for the presidency. this is just over an hour. >> thank all of you for coming out. it's great to have you back. great to have you here as new friends. let me start tonight and ask you, you focus in your book on nine women. how did you select those nine women? >> i think the best answer is we could have looked at more, but within the confines of the book you can only do so much. so we wanted diversity. we wanted democrats, republicans. we wanted different parts of the country. to some extent we wanted different ages. we knew on the basis of nine, you can't make generalizations that are 100% certain. we say as much in the book. our conclusions are hypotheses that other people might now run with, but in order to make even those kind of a hypotheses we needed a fairly diverse group. >> we also included women, yeah, there's a white house project that's been around a