(knock on door) >> thomas: jeez. >> steffy: thomas. >> thomas: enough with the texting. i had to see this in person. you're seriously moving back in? >> steffy: well, no. maybe. >> steffy: (sighs) >> thomas: you said you packed a bag. obviously, you think you are. >> steffy: well, yeah. i, uh, i have a trip planned. but if i have to cancel because liam wants me to move back in, you know, so be it. >> thomas: whoa, steffy, what's going on? >> steffy: actually, what is going on with you? you got here so quick. were you, like, texting and driving, especially after the whole thing that happened with marcus? >> thomas: oh, look who's suddenly on safety patrol. i've seen you do it. >> steffy: uh-- >> thomas: and no, no, i was-- i was out this way already. >> steffy: okay, and i only did it a few times at red lights. and i don't do it anymore! the whole thing with marcus was a wake-up call. >> thomas: yeah, he's lucky he didn't actually hit somebody. >> steffy: he's lucky you and caroline figured that out. >> thomas: (chuckles) >> steffy: nice job, by the way. all those mysteri

i read will fall on thomas cromwell. i know a lot of that. she does a masterful job of telling a story that is often told yet telling it in a brand-new way. and the summer i am probably going to read a new novel called the age of wonders, that has been getting a lot of attention. and, i haven't read bob karros most recent lbj book but i certainly have it on my bedside table and will be reading it sometime this summer. >> for more information on this and other summer reading list, visit booktv.org. >> up next from it booknotes interview from 1996 the late conor cruise o'brien recounts thomas jefferson's tenure as american minister to france and his thoughts on the french revolution. this isri just under an hour. c-span: conor cruise o'brien, where did you get the title for your book, "the long affair"?n i >> guest: kind of out of the air, really, because i realizede when i started working on the founding fathers, in general, ig relation to the french revolution. then i found one of them, thoma jefferson, was having a very,fer very special rela

here's a word from the very talented thomas haden church. >> hi, i'm thomas haden church.nd i believe children are our future. but on test after test, american kids are just not keeping up with their foreign peers. i think it's time for a new approach. kid swap. kid swap takes failing american kids and replaces them with smart, foreign kids. >> wait, what? >> here's the math. if we take 12% of our dumb kids and replace them with smart kids from places like china and india, our test scores actually go up 80%. i went to public school in texas. i don't know what any of that means, but it sounds good. $500 donation is all it takes to replace a dumb dumb like bill little here with a whiz kid like ming, from china. he plays the violin. he did my taxes and i hear he's a scratch golfer. jennifer. jen ferp's interests are justin bieber, of course, and consuming her own boogers. jennifer's got to go. >> hey, wait. you can't take me away! >> getting smarter already! she does equations and studies with robby shan car on the it is tar. kevin is actually a very good student and athlete.

is that debate even being held anymore thomas is that within the n.s.a. where there is an artificial canard there really it is that it's and it's also a false dichotomy that somehow we have to trade off our liberty for the sake of security right we have to go back to franklin quote yes so is it possible to unring that bell well you know frank church him self warned the country as a result of what he found out about the massive abuse during the sixty's and seventy's that if the technology advanced to a stage where essentially you could surveil everybody or have they kept tab past that he to surveil everybody would you be able to pull it back and so the open question really is. why should we trust n.s.a. in the twenty first century any more than we. ended up finding out how much you have to distrust n.s.a. during the sixty's and seventy's. there's there's very few people who have not in some way at some time in their lives committed some crime and one of the ways that really genuinely tyrannical regimes operate the north korean regime for example is they wi

whistleblowers thomas drake and kirk we both men were involved in exposing the n.s.a.'s massive arguably illegal domestic spying program known as the trailblazer project initiated in two thousand spite not leaking any classified information and exhaustedly going through all the protocols required for members of the intelligence community to blow the whistle on wrongdoing both men face serious retributions for going public with what they knew about the n.s.a. surveillance program in two thousand and seven after a reporter for the baltimore sun jane information regarding waste fraud abuse the n.s.a. f.b.i. agents raided the home of kirk wiebe confiscating computer hard drives and business records and revoking the security security clearance for and that's a veteran that he had held since one thousand nine hundred sixty four we be it was not charged with any crime however thomas drake whose home was also rated was charged with multiple crimes including violation of the espionage act of one nine hundred seventeen eventually all those charges were dropped in two thousand and

>>> hey, thomas.oming up, a storm is brewing for the gop as tampa braces for tropical storm isaac, governor romney faces hurricanes akin and biden, not to mention the republican national convention's stormy platform. can the romney/ryan ticket turn the focus back to the economy? >>> plus opening the book of mormon as team romney prepares to embrace the candidate's faith, mckay coppins tells us what it's like to attend church with the governor. >>> and bill nye, the obama guy. we ask the scientist about his new lab partner and why some republicans deemed science a four letter word. all that when "now" starts in 180 seconds. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, ha

that's where thomas roman is in nearby greer park for us. thomas? >> carolyn, we actually were at the salt marsh, but we moved a half mile away because we were being swarmed by hundreds of mosquitoes. they have been bitten by the salt marsh mosquito, but many didn't though there would be aerial spraying tomorrow morning. >> they were swarming all over my light bulbs. >> she has a child practicing soccer here. her two children have been repeatedly bitten by mosquitoes in the marsh. >> i had about 30 mosquitoes at my house. i had to get some spray which i didn't like to do. >> reporter: even though she hates the pest she doesn't like the idea that vector control is turning to aerial spraying to kill the mosquitoes that invaded a five-mile area around the flood basin. >> i have mixed feelings about it. i am not really sure. i don't know about the chem -- the chemicals they are using. >> a broken flood gate submerged dormant mosquito eggs allowing them to hatch. the chemicals being used are specifically targeted to the mosquito larva and do not threaten

suddenly the tables turned on clarence thomas and there was a public spectacle.that to happen? >> absolutely, i expected some reaction. and i knew that there would be a lot of negative reaction. but let me just go back and correct one thing. remember, there was controversy even early on in the confirmation process. the american bar association had looked at his record and gave him one of the lowest ratings that it had ever given. there were a number of individuals from civil rights organizations who had come forward to testify that this was not a good nomination, that this was a nomination that was going to set us all back as a country. so that was there. but then, as you say, nothing really like what happened once my testimony took place. and i stand by that testimony. it was the right thing to do. and i'll tell you why. people say, well, it was a sexual harassment claim against him. but really it was testimony about the integrity of the individual who was going to be appointed for a lifetime position. >> what was interesting to me at the time was the way in whi

that's thomas haden church. now, your english is very good.'re not from mexico. >> i lived there for a long time. my english is native. >> jimmy: i got you. you are from where? >> i grew up in oklahoma city in a barbecue restaurant. >> jimmy: how did you wind up being interested in mexican food? >> fell in love. i went to mexico when i was 14 years old and i just fell in love with the culture. >> jimmy: i will say, i had dinner at your restaurant in chicago and it was unbelievably great. very impressed by it. what are we making here tonight? >> we are going to make grilled tuna with an heirloom tomato salsa. >> jimmy: do you raise tuna on that farm? >> we don't ranch tuna. >> the cool thing about this, perfect dish for summertime. the cool thing is the marinade part of it, which is what we start with right here. so, we've got -- this is garlic that's roasted in the husk. and after about ten minutes in it there, it will get soft, black spots in places. once it cools down, you can peel that little -- >> jimmy: you roast it in the oven or the pan

that's where thomas roman is in nearby greer park for us. thomas? >> carolyn, we actually were at the salt marsh, but we moved a half mile away because we were being swarmed by hundreds of mosquitoes. they have been bitten by the salt marsh mosquito, but many didn't though there would be aerial spraying tomorrow morning. >> they were swarming all over my light bulbs. >> she has a child practicing soccer here. her two children have been repeatedly bitten by mosquitoes in the marsh. >> i had about 30 mosquitoes at my house. i had to get some spray which i didn't like to do. >> reporter: even though she hates the pest she doesn't like the idea that vector control is turning to aerial spraying to kill the mosquitoes that invaded a five-mile area around the flood basin. >> i have mixed feelings about it. i am not really sure. i don't know about the chem -- the chemicals they are using. >> a broken flood gate submerged dormant mosquito eggs allowing them to hatch. the chemicals being used are specifically targeted to the mosquito larva and do not threaten

she claims thomas kinkade wrote two wills giving her his mansion and $10 million. but she submitted a correction to the will saying it contain as barely legible word. they told the judge that word changes the status from care taker to owner. >> we think it makes it clearer that thomas kinkade intended for his artwork to go for her. >> reporter: lawyers maintain the writing is evidence the wills are not valid and the correction is further proof. >> the documents are illegible as indicated by filing this amendment. >> reporter: she has been staying at thomas kinkade's mansion, and the judge wants that settled. >> i am not sure what a scoter is legally -- squatter is legally. she is an illegal resident. >> reporter: they say rent is $12,500 a month. live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> speed and alcohol are believed to be factors in a crash that involved two cars smashing into a home this morning. ktvu showed you these pictures. investigators say two 19-year- old drivers were racing and one of the cars pushed a boulder through a door. the cars cras

reporting live, thomas roman, abc7 news. >> thank you, thomas.ens and seven birds tested positive for west nile virus. that happened today. tomorrow from sunset to 11:00 pl crews will fog areas where the infected mosquitoes were found. the infected birds turned up in antioch, pleasant hill and walnut creek. they responded to a cycle of violence by putting more cops on the street. it follows the community outcry after last night's fatal stabbing in a safe way we reported. it is the 32nd homicide of the year, five more than this time a year ago. and a emergency response plan includes adding police sweeps to disrupt gang activity and assigning all available officers to patrol duty. over time has been okayed to keep them on the streets around the clock. >>> the oakland a's are facing what the san francisco giants grappled with a week ago. it was a pennant drive without a key contributor. they suspended colon for 50 games for using testosterone, the same that lead to melky cabrera's suspension. he took responsibility. five major leaguers tested positi

thomas? >> duncan, thank you.>>> investigators are looking for the motive behind a shooting in washington, d.c. the suspect was 28-year-old floyd corkins. this shooting injured a security guard now being heralded as a hero for being able to subdue the gunman. justice correspondent pete williams is live with more on this. what do we know about this floyd? >> he's been charged with attempted murder and illegally bringing a gun into washington court. he walked into frc's headquarters and told a security guard words to the effect, if i don't like your politics, he shot the guard in the arm before the guard subdued him while another guard called the police. he was carrying a handgun, two more ammunition rounds and also in his backpack were 15 chick-fil-a sandwiches. comments were made about opposition to guy marriage and investigators say that his parents told the fbi, and i'm quoting from the court documents, that their son has strong opinions with respect to those they believe do not treat homosexuals in a fair manne

what i would like to offer, thomas, is the political analysis. mitt romney has a problem on his hands as long as the native continues that the republican party, which is mostly white and male has declared war on women. how do you come out of forceable rape and non-forceable rape and date rape? the president has a 15-point lead on the gender gap. i think mitt romney was tepid yesterday in the denouncing of akin. he said it was reprehensible. he needed to stand up like the leader of the republican party and say this is a new republican party. this is a party that doesn't declare war on women. akin needs to be run out on a rail by every republican leader. they are playing footsie on this. it offends me as a woman. >> if he has co-sponsored h.r. 202 and h.r. 3805. h.r. 212 is a bill that is the personhood amendment. you are familiar it would ban invitro fertilization. his grandchildren have been brought into this world enthusiasm invitro. their kids are all playing on the bus together. they are climbing up and down the aisle together and getting dirt

>> reporter: hi there, thomas. picture of the folks waiting to get in to see paul ryan who will speak here in about two hour's time. they gave away 3500 tickets and it doesn't seem like they can sit 3500 people. there's a lot of excitement around paul ryan ever since announcement on saturday morning. you saw what happened there yesterday in iowa. i looked at the crowd yesterday in iowa and saw a lot of people wearing shirts about two hours before he was supposed to speak there supporting unions. i thought, this doesn't seem like republicans. today he's going to talk about energy which is a big topic here in colorado being one of the states on the leading edge of alternative energy and providing other sources to fuel. mitt romney has been talking about. he talks about five plans that he and paul ryan will put into place to get this country turned around. energy is the number one item on that list. >> ron, as we heard kristen welker talking about how important it is and romney was hammering hard on his opposition to

and in that regard, i don't think of thomas jefferson as exceptional. the fundamental kun none drum that was established in this country, jefferson's ideas about independence is they would dissolve after slivery didn't exist. >> it races the story o whether thisreflecked their hypocrisy or their humanity and therefore is the eternal reality that we want to do good things and we believe certain ideas and ideal, but we also act otherwise. >> so it does. contradiction is part of the human experience. we wrestle with it every single day, whether we admit it or not. thomas jefferson and half of the other slave holders who were presidents all lived daily contra dixes. they could literall look out theirindo and see in the land of the brave and the home of the free and so on and so forth. but the fact of the matter is they had a great responsibility for building what would become american democracy. and in that regard they failed miserably. >> it took me a long time, long past college and even graduate school to figure out that eight of the first ten of our pre

i'm thomas edison. i'm going invented a system that makes an act good. we know people who are following incentives. let's see if we can design a system with a checks and balances that makes them act in a way where they don't profit fear and so on. >> yeah. i'm curious about edison's political view points in general, you know, specifically the role of government today you have sort of paul on one side and prohibit call spending and progovernment intervention using government spending and actually government going in building highways, doing thing in the economy physically. on the other side you have, you know, ron paul and rand paul against that. no role for him. we don't need the roads. we'll do it ourself. if there was an ultimate fiscal championship that paper view improvement on the one side and ron paul on the other. where would he fall in the general viewpoint of the role of the government? probably a little more political scientist. let me give you a view. he lives a long time. he was born in 1947 and because he was a well-known, you know, if i --

thomas?ne of the things that the obama team has been hit about is whether or not he was interested in stimulus money from the president and whether or not he did ask for those stimulus funds. at first he said that he did not, even though now we've learned that he did and he's still trying to distance himself away from why he did that. do you think that that is going to come up or any explanation will come during this point while he's there today? >> reporter: well, absolutely. that's still a developing story, thomas, and it kind of started two days ago, wednesday, when a local reporter from a cincinnati television station asked him about reports that have been mentioned in the past in that he south stimulus money back in his home state of wisconsin and voted against the package and has spent the last couple of years criticizing president obama's stimulus package. take a look at this tape from two days ago. >> a report came out again in the a.p. it was a repeat of that wall street journal arti

thomas jefferson possessed a healthy talent for composition. whatever he was thinking when he wrote all men were created equal he thought blacks were inferior to whites, inferior in body and mind. to read his argument today is to enter once again the pathology of white superiority that attended the birth of our nation so forcefully did he state the case and so great was his standing that after his death the black abolitionist david walker would claim jefferson's argument had injured us more and as great a barrier to our emancipation as anything advanced against us. for it sunk deep into the hearts of the whites and never would be removed this side of eternity. the ideal of equality jefferson proclaimed he portrayed. he got it right when he wrote about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that is how jefferson, thomas jefferson came to embody the oldest and longest war of all, the war between the self and the truth between what we know and how we live. behind the eloquent words of the declaration were human beings as flawed and conflicted

wow, thomas and raymond, this is an amazing story.alk about the case before i ask you how you're doing and how those last few days have been. >> well, we're feeling very happy and elated and the last few days have been like a whirlwind of some activity. just meeting new family and getting to know everybody once again. >> so it's a very odd story. when we hear the new witnesses saying -- clearly you two are white and the who committed this crime they say could have been four or five black guys who jumped a fence and committed this crime. do you know any of these black suspects who somehow are out there somewhere? >> absolutely not. we got embroiled in it by just -- being in the neighborhood that night basically. >> and that was it, being in the wrong place at the wrong time? >> that's basically it, yeah. >> okay, so obviously this would be a good time to lend some clarity into how this whole thing shook out. here's how it started. robert carney was a drug dealer. i think they called him big bob. back in 1987. he was shot to death. in 1

. >> thomas: oh, no.e hit a pothole. >> caroline: yeah, just down the street. >> thomas: blown tire, busted rim. >> man: uh... (chuckles) same as your friend's car. (chuckles) what, is it, uh, is it contagious? (chuckles) >> caroline: (chuckles) >> man: (clears throat) i'll check it out. be right back. >> thomas: (sighs) >> caroline: strange, huh? >> thomas: yeah, it's strange. i get the same damage hitting a pothole that marcus does hitting a person. ♪

alisha thomas, and study hard now, baby. she is involved in the strangely amazing phenomenon called bus driving. the 40 year saga of court immigration is coming to an end. on december 13, 2007, the district court of northern alabama granted the school system of vestavia unitary status. meaning that no longer dual, no longer separate. as a slaveholding nation dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal, america has fundamentally irreconcilable ideas and has been struggling to reach unitary status ever since. the particular chat country and chapter that pertains to vestavia bookends in 1954. brown v. board of education and blacks and whites in public education. brown's indictment of segregated schools did nothing to eliminate it. for 15 years on white school districts kept blacks out by stonewalling him. forcing the government to divide of the solution. the solution they came up with was this. a school bus. in the same decade that americans put human beings on the moon, our minds could offer no hundred and 10 bet

>> thomas, it's not that much of a surprise.y, because sarah palin has never been aboard the mitt romney train. yes, she's supporting his campaign now and wants him to defeat president obama but during the primary season she said things that criticized mitt romney and palin would be playing a higher profile role. all of that said, sarah palin star power as far as impacting this presidential race isn't as big as it might have been a year or two years ago. you just look at all of the conservatives, people like marco rubio, bobby jindal have been stumping for mitt romney on the campaign role, acting as key surrogates. sarah palin has always been left off that list. >> we have the filings from tampa bay broadcasting. president obama has spent over 1$100 million for ad spots that will run during shows like dr. phil, extreme makeover, home edition, a lot of shows that get older eyeballs that are popular with seniors. the goal here is what? >> the goal there is to actually make sure that your message isn't drowned out by the four-day c

>> thomas: mm. >> caroline: thanks. >> thomas: sure. >> tony: finding anything?> thomas: well, we're on the right night. >> caroline: we're just waiting to see if anthony comes in the frame. >> tony: why? we know marcus hit him. >> thomas: i know. it's just... some

>> yes, thomas.he court has struck down that 48-hour rule, which was a restrictive process designed to prevent voter registration and, in fact, what we know is that the number of new voters being registered in florida in 2012 is way, way below the number in 2008 at this time. and so now that this law has been invalidated, the groups can go out on the street and help voters get access to democracy, because, really, the point is that if you're a citizen, and if you are eligible, voting should be easy. and what we've seen this cycle is laws all over the country designed to make it more difficult to vote. and we see voters registration in florida. we see early voting restrictions in ohio. and as you noted, we see photo i.d., a very restrictive photo i.d. requirement in pennsylvania. so advancement project is fighting all of these restrictions, because we believe that politicians should not be able to manipulate the system like this. >> last night in paul ryan's speech he said our rights come from nature

>> guest: ah, must be our boy thomas jefferson. c-span: but you said as people looked up there they were talking about george washington--some of the tourists. >> guest: they were. they were. george washington, of course, is a prominent revolutionary for most americans. they assumed he had to be there they were looking for george washington. but george washington wasn't at congress in july 1776. he was in new york heading the continental army. c-span: do... >> guest: the people were sure they saw him there. c-span: what else did you hear people say that surprised you about what they thought they were seeing in that room? >> guest: well, i'm--was interested in their responses. they thought the--i was struck by the mother saying--i took it to be the mother saying to her of your history come alive?' and i wondered if it did make it come alive or if it somehow locked it in some sacrosanct quasi-religious past that was not reachable for most people. c-span: you write in your introduction the following: 'perhaps i should also explain tha

so a very difficult situation over here, thomas. we'll continue to monitor it. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez, thanks. we'll check back in with you. >>> want to take you back to tampa and the man who hopes to be america's next vice president is prepping for what could be the biggest speech of his political career. paul ryan will formally introduce himself to millions of voters during an address in the primetime spotlight night. this morning, his wife jana stressed her knimt the campaign during a women for romney breakfast. >> i just want to say thank you to the romneys for welcoming me, my husband, paul, our three children on this journey. our families, our children, our future, that's what this race is all about. >> nbc's ron mott joins me from tampa on what we can expect to hear tonight from paul ry. obviously this is going to be the biggest night of his life. biggest speech for sure. >> good day to you. he'll be front and center. a lot of folks getting their first look at paul ryan tonight. and we are told that he's going to focus a lot

so i'm thomas edison.i'm going to make the system that makes this at good because we know people are just people. let's see if we can design the system of checks and balances that makes them happy in a way where they don't profiteer and so on. >> yeah, i am kind of curious about edison political viewpoints in general, specifically the role of government. you know, jay paul krugman, said his pro-fiscal spending and pro-government intervention from using government spending and government building highways commit doing things in the economy physically. on the other side you have ron paul started against that sanders so role for government and that we don't need any game. we'll do it ourselves. it's sort of an ultimate fiscal championship today. krugman on one side and ron paul on the other, where would he fall in his general viewpoint over the role of government is? >> boy, that is probably more for a political scientist, but let me give you a couple of views. edison is one of these guys have it quite a lot

>>> hi everybody, i'm thomas roberts, sitting in today for tam ran hall. the developing news, the after math of hurricane isaac, floods, dramatic rescues all along the gulf coast. within just the last few hours, residents in louisiana and missouri were ordered to evacuate after isaac badly damaged a nearby dam. louisiana governor bobby jindal assessed the damage, take a listen. >> if this dam were to break, it would take about 90 minutes for the water to get to kentwood. they are planning a planned breach of the dam to avoid, to stop the dam from breaking. >> some of the worst flooding is in plaquemines parish, where they could break the flooding there. it is worse some say than hurricane katrina years ago. >> it is just bringing back a lot of hurricane katrina, i'm done. >> so there are a lot of major concerns in the city of slidell, where the residents were forced to leave their homes in the middle of the night. and we'll get a full report from our gabe gutierrez who is in the region. we have that for you coming up. >>> we turn to the major story of the

thomas, for you, it's hump day. only a couple more days of waking up in the darkness of night. >> i'm just getting used to it. i'm starting to get used to it, my body clock is shutting down by 7:30 at night. >> welcome to my world. >> kerri and misty, have you had a chance to see them play? because they are playing better than ever. >> i have not. i haven't been over there in person, i've been watching on tv. i'm trying to get over there, it's going to be one of the toughest tickets of the olympics. first of all because it's such a cool place. it's in this atmosphere that's hundreds and hundreds of years old. they're playing california-style beach volleyball. also because they're the very best in the world. misty may-treanor and kerri walsh jennings. and this will be their last match ever together tonight, you don't want to miss it. >> no, you don't. we'll get caught up on sports at home with the u.s. nationals and astros needing extra innings last night. tied 2-2 top of the 12th, runner on third for danny espinoza,