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i'm thomas roberts coming up on "news nation."tress is an age old problem facing soldiers, now the pentagon has a new method to treat it and it involves your smart phone. >>> also i'm going the talk to a 61-year-old woman who has done nothing another athlete has done before. and today's gut check makeup ads featuring christie turlington and julia roberts in britain are under fire. now britain has pulled theç ad. all that and much more ahead on "news nation." >>> what is happening behind the scenes to try to avoid default. if anyone would know it's kent conrad. senator thanks so much. when you were behind the scenes, we had our own behind the scenes inside washington shoot today. i think we were talking to my leader, at least, brian williams at one point earlier today. what are you seeing behind the scenes? are there negotiations going on that we don't know about? >> well, certainly there are. you know the situation here, andrea. look, we are getting closer and closer to a moment that is critically important to the country. and so

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. >>> i'm thomas roberts in for tamron hall.tion is following the latest developments out of washington with the debt gridlock. the house reconvenes at the top of the hour. speaker boehner plans to bring the bill to the foor for a vote some time this evening. republican tea party members have been a huge obstacle to speaker boehner so far. we're going to get reaction from one of them. congressman steve king will join me. plus the latest on tropical storm don and its track. will the storm bring some relieve to the extreme drought conditions in texas. all that and much more at the top of the hour. >>> a senior official says the treasury department is now leaning towards keeping contingency plans underwraps as opposed to publicizing them. senate, you've seen what's happened on the house side. the speaker has sweetened the bill in terms of more tea party support, democrats are causllin it a poison pill. >> the problem with the democratic leadership is everything's a nonstarter including a budget. we've gone for two years without a b

>>> i'm thomas roberts.i will talk to rnc chairman reince priebus about the ongoing debt debate in washington. president obama says the ultimate deal will be painful on both sides. what are republicans willing to sacrifice to get this deal done by august 2nd? >>> plus, california lawmakers send a bill to the governor that would make lessons in gay history mandatory in school textbooks. i'll talk to the state senator who proposed that bill and says it will help curb bullying of gay teens. all that and more coming up on "news nation" in 15 minutes. >>> remember when barack obama went overseas to campaign for president three summers ago? we were with him on that trip. republicans pounced all over him. today, mitt romney, the presumptive republican front-runner, is in all places london, raising cash from wealthy americans abroad. romney has raised $18 million plus in the second quarter, $3 million less than he did during a comparable period four years ago when he ran. but far ahead of the rest of the republican

worthy at this great track in >>> i'm thomas roberts.ther losing her 4-year-old son when he's struck and killed by a drunk driver. in a twist, the child's mom could face more time in prison than the drunk driver who killed her son. it's today's news nation gut check. plus homeowners in one neighborhood are trying to evict a man who paid $16 for a home in foreclosure. he took advantage of an obscure law that's being challenged in several steps across the u.s. we're 15 minutes away. >>> how much time is left before the debt ceiling stalemate goes critical? so far marks are betting it will get resolved one way or another. some say they're factoring in the debate has long last shifted to reducing the deficit rather than continuing washington's spending spree. joining us now senior fellow at the brooksings institution, former budget director and former vice chair of the federal reserve among other titles. maybe we can get a reality check from you. these competing proposals first of all, what would be wrong with a two-tier approach with revisi

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. >> i'm thomas roberts. we begin with breaking news. the shocking twists and turns in the case against dominique strauss-kahn. it's amidst reports of his accuser and the credibility she has may end in his house arrest being thrown out. john than is covnathan is covern new york. do we have credibility on the woman and how it's going to affect the day in court? >> it's expected to get started around 11:30. both agreed dominic strauss-kahn will be released on his own. he will no longer have an ankle bracelet or put up money for bail, no longer have the security guards. he will not get his passport back until the charges can be sorted out. high is this happening? there's new information coming to light about the accuser in the case. prosecutors questioned her about her past where she claimed she had been raped once before overseas in her native country and told a detailed gripping, emotional account to the prosecutors and apparently used that story as part of her asylum request. they are part of the claims to the story. they continued to qu

and follow the show on twitter@mitchell reports, and my colleague thomas roberts is in for tamron hallomas. >> and coming up right here in the next hour, we are following what washington will do where we are hours away from speaker boehner's house bill. and will he get a lock on these votes? "hardball's" chris matthews will join me. and plus a count from the white house. and plus the latest on the governor chris christie checked out at the hospital for breathing problems. "newsnation" is minutes away. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> hi, everybody, i'm thomas roberts in for tamron hall today. not a done deal yet. "n

. >> hi, everybody, i'm thomas roberts. hour live on msnbc, president obama's town hall in maryland on the very day the white house has repeatedly said that a basic debt agreement must be reached to avoid default in 11 days. >>> also the executive director of a gay conservative group is assaulted in a hate crime. go proud's jimmy lasallevia will join us to explain what happened and why they don't support hate crime laws. >>> and a u.s. congressman fighting off an armed robber to protect his family during a home invasion. leonard boswell will tell me exactly what happened. we'll see you at the top of the hour. now back to chris. >> thomas, thank you. >>> let's get you caught up on that breaking news. devastating pictures here. os oslo, a huge explosion rocking government headquarters there, including the prime minister's office. several people have been injured and now we want to tell you that we are getting some confirmation at least from public broadcasting there that says one fatality has been confirmed. the question is w

. >>> i'm thomas roberts.oming up on "news nation", how would president reagan handle this decrisis facing our country? i'm going to talk to president reagan's one of the boast known advise source, saying the late president would have takeled the crisis differently. some employers say they're not interested in hiring anyone who's been out of work for any length of time. is that a fair practice? detail just ahead. >>> a small group of women in afghanistan have been given an important role negotiating alongside 60 afghan men trying to broker a lasting peace for their country. but the nine women claim that old habits die hard. and they have been margin alzheimer'sed in the talks. they aren't the only onings. while girl schools have been reopened in that country and the burka is no longer required by law, afghan women are treated like second-class citizens. one group in the u.s. is seeking to change that, not just in afghanistan, but other oppressive countries around the world. anita mcbride is now a senior to the

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good to have you with me today, i'm thomas roberts sitting in for tamron hall, and the "newsnation" following the intense debt divide is called a catastrophic default seven days away and right now democratic and republican leaders are bashing each other's dueling plans to solve the debt ceiling crisis. the gop's solution is to raise the debt limit now, and the dems have it last until 2013, after the presidential election. >> if the republicans continue to oppose a reasonable proposal that i e brought here to the floor last night and vote on in the senate soon, it is by political reasons driven by the ideological tea party. >> we have a bill that is a reasonable approach, and negotiated with the senate leadership that really is common sense. >> from the hill to the white house, and with we have team coverage with all of the angles of this developing story with msnbc's kelly o'donnell, and kristen welker. i want to start with kelly. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell now saying he supports boehner's plan, and what does that mean for the reid plan? >> well, one of the things that we have bee

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i'm thomas roberts. welcome back to msnbc's special live coverage of the ongoing debt ceiling debate. it's just 74 hours now the u.s. government will default for the first time in our country's history unless republicans will agree to sign on to raising the debt ceiling. and at this hour, senate majority leader harry reid is desperately trying to convince enough republicans to sign on to his version of a debt ceiling bill. this has been a day filled with backroom negotiations, dueling press conferences on all sides, white house meetings, high-level theatrics in both chambers. take a look. >> throughout this debate over guarantee i guaranteeing insane, never-before-seen in the history of this country spending, president obama has coolly stood on the sidelines. the president has no plan. only the republicans have offered plans. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. the republicans led by their tea party radicals are determined to cripple go

i'm thomas roberts. rupert murdoch will testify at parliament tomorrow, this is the big headline, all over the phone hacking scandal that's rocking his media scandal. meanwhile there was a new arrest of a top exec over the weekend, and now the head of scotland yard and his assistant are resigning. if you're keeping score so far, there have been three high-profile resignations, ten arrests and it is not over yet. jim maceda is live in london to bring us up to speed on this. jim, good morning. >> reporter: hi there, thomas. make that four high profile resignations. just a couple of hours ago scotland yard's number two, john yates, also resigned under increasing, extraordinary, really, pressure. that on the heels on his boss's resignation last night. commissioner paul stevenson, he was the head of scotland yard. he, if you will, fell on his sword and said that he could not in good conscience continue with all the challenges to keep the peace in great britain as he and specifically his relationship with the

all right thomas roberts. right now see levels around the world are rising at a rate faster than any other time in the last two thousand years that's just the latest inconvenient truth coming from the world's leading environmental scientists and it's clear this is the result of manmade global warming is for much of the last two thousand years sea levels were stable arose at a fraction of a millimeter a year that was until the turn of the nineteenth century and we found a way to harness ancient sunlight like coal oil for energy and spewed billions of tons of dirty greenhouse gases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere since then sea levels have been rising more than two millimeters every year and speeding up and this graph shows it is right here this is this is pretty remarkable zero millimeters a year change this is two thousand year period two thousand years and then the green years the actual observed numbers and then the blue is what they were able to calculate from looking at things like you know ice chart yo

kings of america with nobody who had the power to undo their decisions but that's what scalia and thomas roberts and alito want you to believe that they can make george w. bush president without any appeal that they can make money and a speech that they can turn corporations into people and the rest of us have no say in and they're wrong it's not what the constitution says we don't have kings in america and it's time to seriously debate and challenge the doctrine of judicial review the claim by the court itself that it has that power as thomas jefferson wrote if you give shiri of the united states is the subtle core of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our constitution i will say that against this every man should raise his voice and more should uplift his arm why because jefferson for judges to usurp the powers of the legislature is unconstitutional judicial tyranny one single object will entitle you to the endless gratitude in society that of restrain judges from usurping legislation the power of we the people should be with the people and their elected officials n

until then you can follow me on twitter at thomas a. roberts.ng to pick things up for the next hour. >> it is a story of tragic dimensions. a mom who loses her little boy to aç hit and run driver. now the twist, she could spend more time behind bars than he did because she was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk. she joins me next to talk about it. >>> did a minnesota school's neutrality policy allow gay bullying? that's the question and a mother who lost her young son to what she says bullying to led to a suicide. she joins me to talk about it. and nancy pelosi calling now for an ethics investigation into the oregon congressman who's smack-dab in the middle of a sex scandal. it's all ahead on msnbc. ♪ [ upbeat ] [ announcer ] who could resist the call... of america's number-one puppy food brand? with dha and essential nutrients also found in mother's milk. purina puppy chow. >>> the big story we're watching right now, duelling debt plans. today john boehner is going rogue. and democrats say good luck with that. >> more changes, but no d

thomas roberts back in the hot seat. i don't have a picture like that. , you're coming back, tomorrow. >>> that was a good picture. you took a good picture yourself. >> good too see you, the rhetoric heating up over debt. will republicans and democrats compromise on taxes to avert a possible economic disaster. then the debate surrounding the dr. martin luther king junior national memorial in d.c. why the original sculptor says dr. king would have some serious issues with it next on msnbc. f . but it just tastes like fruit. and try our deliciously refreshing v8 v-fusion + tea. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center recommends the custom-fit orthotic that's best for your tired feet. foot-care scientists are behind it. you'll get all-day relief. for your tired achy feet. for locations, see drscholls.com. thank you... >>> good day. shock a

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i'm thomas roberts. battle lines are being drawn can no xron ground on a solution to our common debt. a week away from a default with investors still holding on to the belief that somehow someway both sides will come to their senses a el close a deal. last night the president and speaker boehner made their pitches to a national audience. >> defaulting is a reckless and irresponsible outcome to this debate. the new approach that speaker boehner unveiled today, which would temporarily extend the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts would force us to once again face the threat of default just six months from now. in other words, it doesn't solve the problem. >> the sad truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago, and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> nbc's kristin welker is live on the north lawn with the latest for us. kristin, it really was reality tv at its best last night, the president and speaker commanding the air waves when most people were

i'm thomas roberts. fast moving developments on capitol hill.democrats are making it clear that the republican deal is a non-starting to compromise. >> they ought to scrap the boehner plan. it is not getting any democratic votes in the house. they are having trouble getting republican votes in the house. it is dead on arrival in the senate. the boehner model is not going anywhere. this idea that speaker boehner has to please the 80 most right wing people in his house caucus before he does anything is a formula for paralysis and failure. >> we have california senator barbara boxer joining us. >> good morning. >> explain to us in your estimation, who will bridge this gap? both sides say the other party's plan has no chance of reaching the president's desk. the patience of the american people is running very thin. >> let me say this, the american people want a true compromise. the good news that i bring to your viewers today is that harry reid's plan is that compromise. this is not rhetoric. let me explain why. the republicans said they wanted no r

. >>> i'm thomas roberts. here's what's topping the news now.ornia and the search has ended for three people traveling in yosemite national park. saying the three hikers are presumed dead after being swept over vernal falls, standing at a barrier over the falls, posing for a picture. >> he didn't deserve it. his family didn't deserve it. >> these young victims were remembered by friends and family at a service in california held last night. >>> a little girl recovering from a scary shark encounter in north carolina. it happened tuesday afternoon when it bit her on the leg when she was boogie boarding in waters off north carolina. witnesses say they are frightened and on alert. >> i lil want to know she's okay. did not like what i saw and it really tore me up. >> definitely keep the kids out of the water in the morning and evening. >> i feel sorry for her and hope i don't get bit. >> she is in good spirits and issued a statement saying, quote, i hate sharks, i like dolphins better. who can blame her? >>> five democratic congresswoman are couragin

i'm thomas roberts. welcome to missneshls coverage of the ongoing debt ceiling debate. in 75 hours the u.s. government may default for the first time in our history unless republicans and democrats can find a compromise to get enough votes to raise the debt ceiling. senator majority leader harry reid is trying to convince enough republicans to sign on to his version of a debt ceiling billing. this has been a day filled with back room negotiations, press conferences. >> the debate over guaranteeing, insane, never before seen in the history of this country levels of spending, president obama has coolly stood on the sidelines. the president has no plan. only the republicans have offered plans. >> there is absolutely no excuse for this reckless, unpatriotic behavior on the part of the republicans. the republicans led by their tea party radicals are determined to cripple government and destroy medicare, medicaid and social security. >> what i think is not helpful is that the process we're going through here on the senate floor. >> we're here today right now for this reason.

i'm thomas roberts. i appreciate your time. it's sentencing day for casey anthony. a while ago, the punishment was handed down. >> i will sentence you to one year in the orange county jail, imposing a $1,000 fine on each count of four counts to run consecutive to each other, giving you credit for the time that you have previously served. >> this punishment comes two days after she was acquitted of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, caylee marie. both sides are haggling over time served, time credited. so the exact time that she will have behind bars is now unknown. lilia luciano is outside of the courtroom in orlando. this went pretty smooth inside that courtroom? >> reporter: it was, thomas. it definitely was. both sides are calculating, along with judge perry, how much credit casey anthony will get for the time served. my colleague, kerry sanders, was actually out there with protesters, still expecting to hear how long she will spend in jail, tells me that he's done the math over and over and he calculates if you take into account not only the time

i'm thomas roberts, and tamron hall will return monday. catch "newsnation" at 2:00 p.m.tern right here on msnbc. but don't go anywhere, because martin bashir is coming your way next. ♪ [ whistles ] ♪ [ cat meows ] ♪ [ ting! ] [ male announcer ] travelers can help you protect the things you care about and save money with multi-policy discounts. are you getting the coverage you need and the discounts you deserve? for an agent or quote, call 800-my-coverage or visit travelers.com. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. >>> good afternoon it is friday july 29th, and here is what is happening. >>> mr. speaker, pick up the phone. calls flood the congressional switchboard and boehner finally compromises. >> we have a deal? we have a deal? >> i'm smiling. >> with the tea party, a poisoned pill added to a bill more certain to be killed by the senate than the last one. >> it is unfair. it is

. >>> i'm thomas roberts, here's what's topping the news now.least 13 deaths are blamed on this week's high temperatures and humidity. roads are buckling and utility companies are strained to their limits. they are now asking customers to cut back on air conditioning and this unbearable heat is widespread. 32 states and washington, d.c., are under a heat advisory. so when can we all expect some relief? let's go to the weather channel's jen carfagno who joins us with more. when can we expect something cooler in sight? >> it is not in the short term. look at what we have behind me? we have the heat advisories in effect for 32 plus the d.c. area, extreme heat still going on today across the heartland and it's spreading. it's spreading to the big cities. we've got 141 million people now who are going to feel this heat wave. when it comes to a break, we are still in the heat today. minneapolis had a very humid day yesterday with our highest dew point on record, 82. we're going to get a break, a slight break, with some relief coming in with a front to

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. >>> great to be with you, i'm thomas roberts and i would say tgif if it weren't for what's going on in washington, d.c., right now. it's frenetic and let's talk about it, time is nearly up for the congress to reach a compromise. john boehner is trying to make changes to the bill and have a vote as early as this afternoon. we're following the fast-moving developments on capitol hill and at the white house as well as on wall street. this is where investors get a very dismal report on the gdp, and we're going to get into that in a moment and also take a look at what the boards are doing across the markets. >>> but, first, here's president obama addressing the crisis just moments ago -- >> any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan. today i urge democrats and republicans in the senate to find common ground on a plan they can get support -- that can get support from both parties in the house, a plan that i can sign by tuesday. the time for compromise on behalf of the american people is now. and i'm confident that we can solve this problem. i'm confident that we will solve this prob

>>> hi, great to have you with me, i'm thomas roberts and we begin with the showdown over the debt. house speaker john boehner thinks he can take control of the debt ceiling debate if he can get the tea party members of his caucus to get in line. house members will debate and vote on speaker boehner's revised debt bill later today, but we should get a sense of where president obama stands when his press secretary jay carney speaks moments from now. meanwhile, lawmakers are staring down a grim reality, five days, that's it, five, until the u.s. defaults on its debt and will send shock waves down the economy. the tea party contingent is creating a lot of uncertainty. >> this was an agreement between the bipartisan senate leaders and myself. it is what's doable. and i think we can get there. >> mr. speaker, is it fair to say you have a bit of a rebellion on your hands, or do you feel -- >> oh, i've got a little rebellion on my hands every day. it comes with the territory. >> you're not worried? >> never let them see you sweat. >> there you go. nbc's luke russert who never lets anyone o

thomas orci. based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the visit of the i.a.e.a. chief to fukushima is a farce he claims the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect people from the effects of the disaster. in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation and policy and not really in any way peeling with the actual problems that are facing us here and and in terms of the problems with the nuclear plants the situation is rather dire still these plants are still leeching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of the cooling into the air which now preoccupied many people in japan is that even for those of us that live far enough away that we thought we were not in any way threatened by the radiation from the plants we're now finding that because of insufficient oversight to the food supply and public health questions that radiation is turning up in all kinds of food products so you're finding now people in far away from fukushima areas are now beginning to realize

if justice alito and justice thomas in particular chief justice roberts would continue to comment publiclyin whatever fashion on the other branches what they may be saying or doing, i think there is a long term cost to the credibility of the court. we don't believe they are purified to plant on a judicial rose but we want to believe that. we don't like to think of the justices as raw political actors. there is a danger for a chief justice roberts and the court as well. >> let's new two questions and we have a gentleman with a microphone and really ask if you stand up so we can have our c-span viewers to hear you. >> when the last supreme court ruling came down about corporate giving, i was very much enraged and thought i would send out letter but then i thought i cannot send this to the supreme court because they will not bother with my opinion. am i correct in assuming that is true? >> the answer is there is nothing that stops you. it will take some time to get there because all of the letters are checked for anthrax. [laughter] after the anthrax scare and it takes a long time for the mai

he has written profiles of justices kennedy, thomas, chief justice roberts. and articles of the legal implications of the war on terror. the florida recount, the investigation of president clinton, trials of martha stewart, timothy mcveigh, adjacent to an -- o.j. simpson. inside the secret world of the supreme court was a mutlitp -- multiple award winner and a new york times best seller. please welcome jeffrey tubin. [applause] >> thank you, judge. think you for having me. -- thank you for having me. i assure you that my remarks will be the briefest of anyone else. i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york and i had a conversation early in my career have i will always remember. it was one of my mentors, john gleason. john said to me, you know, when you are in that judge's court, you feel like you are in federal court. i knew what he meant and i suspect you knew what he meant because the federal courts are a great tool of the american government. they are not perfect, but they work better hendry and better resulting than virtu

cn and a staff writer at the new yorker and wrote pr files of justices breyer, kennedy, thomas, chief justice roberts plus articles on such subjects as the legal implications of the war on terror, former attorney general john ashcroft, the florida recount, the investigation of bill clinton, trials of martha stuart, timothy mcveigh, oj simpson. his 2007 book, "inside the secret world of the supreme court" was a multiple award winner in a "new york times" best seller. please welcome jeffrey toobin. [applause] >> thank you, judge. good morning, everyone. thank you for having me. i am the only one here who works in television news, so i assure you my remarks will be the briefest of anyone else. i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in brooklyn new york, in the eastern district of new york, and i had a conversation early in my career there that i'll always remember with one of my mentors in the office, a prosecutor, and we were talking about one of the judges, judge eugene nickerson, and he said to me, when you're in judge nickerson's court, you really feel like you're in federal court, and i knew what

robert lucas went on to become the territorial governor of iowa and was in that capacity that we begin to return quite to thomas jefferson. lucas, too request. he was quite a character and so i would like to take a moment to read three excerpts from the times of robert lucas. the first is from the cleveland herald in 1838 comes a point of 1838 is this is after he has won this dispute with michigan and had been appointed to become the territorial governor of ohio. governor lucases of the most deserving men and the party, and when we dealt lot of or approved of the territory of iowa. he's an intelligent western pioneer. isn't that nice? the second is a letter that lucas wrote many years earlier during the war 1812 when he was a young officer and wrote this letter to a fellow officer. what's important to keep in mind is the words you're hearing he put in writing. she rode never was there a more patriotic army that had it more completely in their power to accomplish every object of their desire than the present and it must be now sunken in disgrace for want of a general lack their hand. neither was the mnf talent a

thomas over to you. well for more on what's happening in japan i'm joined live now from hiroshima by nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs. robert thanks so much for being here with us now why is the head of the i.a.e.a. difficult only now so what's expected to come out of his visit. once and what's largely coming out of the visit is an endorsement of the plan of the government of japan on the road forward the so-called road map and in essence sort of a saying to find more blessing that everything is proceeding according to plan. what. the a did come in march although amano was secretary model was not able to come to fukushima so because the danger is there but he's now toured the facility and been briefed and had discussions with the government but in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation of policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here in japan while the tragedy that hit japan about four months ago terrified the world tell us how this iteration is there are now. well there is there's different pieces to it there'

he has written profiles of justices briar, kennedy, thomas, and chief justice roberts, plus, articles on subjects such as the legal implications of the war on terror, former attorney general john ashcroft, the florida recount, ken starr's investigation of print -- president clinton, the trials of martha stewart, timothy mcveigh, o.j. simpson. looked's 2007 book inside the secret world of the supreme court and was a multiple award winner of the "new york times" best seller list. please help me welcome jeffrey toobin. [applause] >> thank you, judge. good morning, everyone. thank you for having me. i am the only one that works in television news, so i assure you of my remarks will be the briefest of anyone else. i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in the eastern district of the new york. i had a common thing happen in my career with one of my mentors in the office, john gleeson. we were talking about one of the judges, judge eugene nickerson. and john says to me, when you are in judge nickerson's court, you really feel like you are in federal court. i knew what he meant, and i suspec

robert pear and interpretation of this. i'm quoting your characterization. ec thomas durrant was a bassoon.tommy siemer was corrupt at large that competent. james hervey was a racist brutal peer grenville dodge is a liar and an eclectic hater who hated loudly and demonstrably. stan brenner is a bassoon. curt lister and was obtuse and the cackle of the southern pacific executives and a whole bunch you named were divided coro some petulant arrogant and inept men. that sounds a little bit like matthew joseph. you see in your introduction that you think the robert pear and interpretation of history is likely to be the low quickly misinterpretation of what you try to learn. so given that town in the way you do with individual robber baron, how was the teacher your account really is distinguishable at its analytic war from the matthew joseph accounts the mobile the whole rather current theory? >> after 10 or 12 years, much of that is paraphrasing what they said about each other. i'll give you one quote. it was the golden age of american betrayal. so when i quote something, i often think this is p

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robert lucas went on to become the territorial governor of iowa, and it was in that capacity that we begin to return to quite a route yet to thomas jefferson. lucas, too, had a quest. he was quite a character. i would like to take a moment to read you three excerpt from the times of robert lucas. the first is from the cleveland harold in 1838 so the point of 1838 is this after he has won this dispute with fresh again and had been appointed, just been appointed to become the territorial of honor of ohio. governor locuses one of the most deserving men in the party and we approve a good governor of their territory of iowa. he is an old-fashioned, honest and intelligent western pioneer. the second is a letter that lucas wrote many years earlier during the war 1812 when he was a young officer and he wrote a letter to a fellow officer. what's important to keep in mind is the words you are hearing. he put in writing. he wrote never was there a more patriotic army that had a completely in their power to accomplish every object of their desire than the present, and it must now be set in disgrace for want of a general lack their hands. nei

thomas friedman's shameless comments ahead. plus a 2012 round-up, and why michele bachmann is hoping rick perry doesn't throw his hat in the ring. and this, julia roberts banned in the uk. we'll they you why. those stories and much more. "the five" starts right now. we're waiting on the host to hold a final vote on the boehner plan. quickly the highlights of the plan. the plan will cut and cap discretionary spend buying $917 over the next ten years, and louvre the debt ceiling to rise by $900 billion immediately. but this one, very importantly, no new revenue, no tax increase. after the bill passes, which i think it probably will, the democrats have three options. they have cut, cap and balance already passed. they have the boehner compromise passed. oh, this one, they have more obama economics, bob, which has failed. >> before we get started -- >> oh, no! >> -- i have in honor of my friend, greg, i've gotten you all this t-shirt i have, which says i love the debt debate. here you go, greg. debt ceiling debate. whatever. >> bob, i will wear this when i go to bed and think of you. my nightshirt. >> i got you one. here you go. >> you can't put them on ye

thomas jefferson's personal collection. join us for the library of congress. tonight at 8:00 p.m.. >> robert mcdowell on the fcc's actions this week to begin cracking down on unauthorized service charges on consumers' phone bills. that and other issues before the fcc. the website firedoglake.com is organizing people to visit their local congressional offices tomorrow. this morning, we talked with the blog founder. ues. host: at the table, founder of firedog lake blog, jane hamsher. we are talking about the future of spending in this country. guest: we have been organizing around the attempts to cut social security benefits. it looks like they are really going to do something this time. we are asking people to go to their local congress office and tell their member of congrs that they oppose it. host: how big will it be? guest: we have already had it thousand people commit to doing this. people are concerned understandably. they need to put a face to it. host: what darker thoughts on the idea of a balanced budget and how to get there? guest: i think -- the conclusion of a family budget and th