some of these claims, if left unchallenged, will put us at risk. our operation the rights and our freedoms in key areas of the asia pacific. nowhere is this for prevalent than in the south china sea, where claimants asserted broad, territorial sovereignty rights over land features, sea space and resources in the area. the convention is an important component of a rules-based approach that encourages peaceful resolution of these maritime disputes. moreover, the convention codifies an effective balance of coastal right and maritime state rights, a stable legal framework that we help to negotiate that is favorable to our interests and that we should leverage as a check on states that attempt to assert excessive maritime claims. currently the united states is forced to rely on customary international law for our rights and freedoms in the maritime domain. because we're not a party of the convention our challenges are less credible than they might otherwise be. by joining the convention we place ourselves in a much stronger -- rules contained in it, rul

>> i think it is probably illegal, unchallengeable by congress, who could override -- probably legal, challenger by congress, who could override it. i doubt tt they wildo tha. republican co-sponsors drop off of it like mad. it puts it romney and the republicans in a corner. four days they cannot come up with an answer. romney >> this week on "inside -- romney still has not come up with an answer. >> lois romano, welcome. >> thank you. how can they challenge it with su a huge block of voters? obama might have had the latino vote anyway, and how they are very enthusiastic. >> is the latino vote is lost cause for mitt romney? >> he did not have a lot to say in his speech for elected officials. there is a case you can make if you are conservative that i am not sure that romney has made, which is that if you could secure the border and get an authoritative letter from the governors of the four southern states that the flood is now a trickle -- will not abolish it entirely, illegalmmigtion -- at that point, i would be willing to amnesty everybody. if you know that these 11 million of the la

system that has been talked about as being the ideal is a system that has its own problems, it's of unchallenged as. it is not so much that i think a lot of allegations have been made that simply have not been proven. the other thing that i would say is that i know there has been discussion at some point of various compromises, and i have always said that i am open to compromise, but i think that the thing about compromise is that compromise has to come at the right time. it has to come at a time when it is actually necessary. one thing i have heard as being floated as a possible compromise is the idea that you get rid of rank choice voting only with respect to the mayor's race, and i am open to discussing that possibility, but if the focus is really the mayor's race, then the fundamental question for me is why acted today? we just had a mayor's race last year, and if there is a fear that somehow there will be confusion, that there will be low voter turnout in the next mayor's race, then we have the opportunity between now and the next election which would be in 2015, i guess, for mayor. there i

is probably legal, and unchallengeable by congress. i doubt -- and challengeable by congress. i doubt they are going to do that. the dream act used to be enormously popular. this year republicans dropped off of it like mad. it puts it romney and the republicans in a corner, and four days they cannot come up with an answer and romney still has not said whether he would repeal this. >> lois romano, welcome. >> thank you. this is totally box in the republicans, and how can a they challenge it with a huge block of voters? obama might have had the latino vote any way, but now they are. these vested. -- very busy aspic. -- very enthusiastic. >> is the latino vote a lost cause for romney? >> well, he did not have much to say in the speech to elected officials. there is a case to be made, that if we could secure the border and build a fence and get an authoritative letter from the governors of the four southern states that the flood is now a trickle -- you will not abolish it entirely, illegal immigration -- at that point, i would amnesty everybody pr. if you know that these 11 millio

loss, wince consin's voters have sent a clear message that attacks on workers' rights will not go unchallenged. working families may not win every fight but this struggle is it far from over." the wisconsin battle also was a preview of how much money is changing politics these days. donations flooded into the state on both sides. the recall election may have cost more than $75 million, and about half of that came from outside wisconsin. a lot of it from wealthy individuals. we asked nancy cordes to look into that. >> reporter: democrats like to say mayor barrett didn't stand a chance against governor walker's money. his $30 million war chest dwarfed barrett's $4 million thanks to a 25-year-old wisconsin law allowing office holders facing recall to ray unlimited funds bob perry and sheldon adelson each gave walker $250,000. wisconsin billionaire diane hendricks gave him $500,000. but money from outside groups helped both candidates. democratic groups spent $15 million on ads and get out the vote efforts. $8million came from unions, four fthe government workers union. >> you have to have a groun

but, like i said, his genius has been unchallenged for nearly two centuries. with many people. um and as i do manage the decatur house. you can see the designs up here and a rendering of monroe and decat decatur, i want to go through a brief slide show so you can see what we think the madison looked like in the white house interiors. this is how that same room has changed throughout history. i think this is mccainley's administration. and today as it is as the blue room. i want to thank the maryland historical society for being wonderful to work with. i'm sorry for the technical difficulties to begin with and in addition to everyone here that has been wonderful to work with, i want to thank the library of congress and the new york public library and james madison and william seal and the white house historical association. and if you have questions i will be happy to take them. there will be a microphone coming around if you would like to raise your hand. [ applause ] >> or on white house history in general, i know that as well. the gentleman down here? >> the furniture that th

and his mansion teammate ashley young found a cross on the left hand side that rooney tragically unchallenged could only had white however three minutes after the interval i really swiftly made amends across this time coming from the right hand side from steven gerrard his cross-breed the goalkeeper who fumbled and really couldn't have got any easier goal heading in from one yard well after now the ukrainians i tried to fight back and it was contrived to see roger milevsky he had you know he had a free header and he missed the control as he came just a minute later marco he beat the defense and he just the hand of joe hart it looked like john terry had cleared the ball off the line however replays showed that the ball had crossed the line all the officials missed it. and again raises the question of goal line technology is a major championships and it finished angel and won ukraine will roy hodgson he's now in between two wins greenland and a draw and they go through as group d. winners and one next play italy so then we turn to kiev where france lost two nil to sweden swedish captains last a

if barack obama wins, it will be because being unchallenged in the primary has allowed them to focus on general elections and reaching out voter turnover machine and combination of the demographics of the country and easing of economic wor prips and if mitt romney wins, the simple question, are you better off than you were four years ago? many people will say no. >> chris matthews? >> i want to quote our numbers guy. it's too early to call. i'm not sure it's going to be close in either direction. nobody knows if this election is going to be close. i do think, though, that it's too early to call anticipate i do think these debates, the three hour and a half debates we're probably going to have are going to be spectacular. i think everybody as cynical as some people have gotten are going to watch it, they're going to love it. we're going to have 24/7 debate about each debate. between each debate it's going to be fantastic. i think we're in preseason. i think it's going to be awesome. as to asimilar met trick forces. one guy, traditional type of candidate. republicans, you usually have

after being unchallenged for 11 years, one record met its match on saturday at the wet track in oregon ashton eton dominated the fields at the olympic trials posting some of the best marks of the year. in the 100 meter dash and long jump. the 24-year-old entered the final event of the decathlon with a world record within his grasp. eton needed a time of 4:16 in the 1500 meter run to break the 11-year record in the decathlon. with less than 50 meters to go, he pushed to the finish line with a little time to spare. he ran the event in 4:14 and beat the record by -- beat the world record by 13 points. >> maybe it's not even about that much to the rest of the world. but to me, it's my whole world. so to do the best that i possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy. >> i would say so. eton joins the elite company of bruce jenner, dan o'brien and rayford johnson as the only americans to have held the world record. amazing feat. >> sure is. all right. well, as you know, nobody does the fourth of july better than daytonsville. >> it's a town that takes its independence day very seriously

other hand, all of that horrific, absolutely unforgettable vividly violent evidence is unrebutted, unchallengedand, therefore, will produce a very quick, i think, guilty verdict. so this is what is being weighed not lawyers' mind and in sandusky's mine as they decide whether to put him on the stand tomorrow. >>shepard: the prosecution rested on thursday of last week, they took friday off, and maybe they went a little on friday but the defense began today. the defense will finish by wednesday, according to the judge, with closings by the lawyers from both sides on thursday. what is the defense trying to accomplish in the interim? >>randy: take one step back because that schedule is fluid. and can always change. but here is the critical thing. you note all of the graphic and horrific -- but there is one problem. it is not corroborated. where is the janitor who saw this? he didn't testify. where is the underwear? no underwear? are is the child victim? the mother? at some level you have to give a jury credit. we saw it in the john edwards case, they said, wait, he didn't get the money. don't be sur

he wrote three books that were so brilliant and comprehensive that they remained unchallenged for more than a millennium, on geography, astronomy and astrology. ptolemy's views on geography were revised when arabs and europeans started to explore the world in the late middle ages, and his ideas on astronomy were swept away when telescopes were invented. but astrology's predictions are too vague to be proved or disproved, so astrology remains essentially unchanged since ptolemy's day. ptolemy divided the zodiac, the path where the sun, moon and planets travel through the stars, into 12 equal pieces called signs, which he used both for astronomy and astrology. ptolemy named the signs after nearby constellations, but signs and constellations are not the same thing. every constellation is a different size and shape, so the sun spends a different amount of time in each one. the whole point of signs is that the sun spends exactly the same amount of time in each one. moreover, the sun goes through 13 constellations, but having 13 signs in the zodiac would make for extremely awkward math, so p

some of these claims if left unchallenged will put us at risk for operational rights and our freedomskey areas of the asia-pacific. nowhere is this more prevalent than in the south china sea where claimants have asserted broad territorial sovereignty rights over land features, see space and resources in the area. convention is an important opponent component of the rules-based approach that urges peaceful resolution of the maritime disputes. more with the convention codifies an effective talents maritime state rights, a stable legal framework that we help to negotiate that is favorable to our interests and that we should leverage as we check on the states that attempt to assert such maritime claims. currently the united states is forced to rely on customary international law as a basis for starting our rights and freedoms of the maritime domain and because we are not a party of the convention are challenges are less credible than they might otherwise be. by joining the convention we place ourselves in a much position to command adherence to the rules contained in it, rules that we hav

about to and the mitt romney will win because [inaudible] >> if obama wins it will be because unchallengedses on the election and the demographics and the easing of it eke that day's economic anxiety but if it is mitt romney it goes back to ronald reagan. are you better off than four years ago? no. mitt romney. nice guy but not ready for the job. >> to quote to our numbers guys, too early to call. nobody knows if the election will be close. i do think it is too early to call. the debates will be spectacular. everybody will watch it and a love it. 24/7 debate about each debate. i think we're in the preseason of the most exciting political season we have never had. it will be awesome. to asymmetric forces after a kid who has run tour three times and bad name is familiar but the democrats get the hottest and. watching him yesterday's dealing with the press conference he still has acuity, articulation to match romney it will be one hell of the debate. baidu think the president's jobs performance is writing on the s&p which is a dangerous place. >> 10 percent turnout will be latino. >> comeback

made a conscious decision to offer nativists a comfortable home where their extremist views go unchallengedpresident's announcement on friday of that homeland security procedural action to the diffusion of the romney-rubio plan this week. >> what the president did was get way out in front on this issue. this seemed to be where rubio wanted to go and where romney perhaps wanted to follow. but the president got there first and it really does create a problem for mitt romney politically because he's already trailing badly among latino voters. so badly, in fact, that that in and of itself can present a challenge to him in winning the presidency. if he doesn't get in the high 30s among latinos, it's hard to see -- it's hard to draw on the map where he wins. and i think this puts him further behind, if you look at sort of flash polls. you see the president's support among latinos perhaps being energized, perhaps being motivated and certainly being solidified, i think, by this. so politically it was a smart move by the president i think and also just in terms of policy itself. this is hard to argu

. >> if president obama wins, it will be because being unchallenged in the primaries has allowed themte -- focus on the primary election, the demographics of the country. if mitt romney wins it will be because to go back to ronald reagan. are you better off than you were four years ago? enough people will say no. the romney campaign, if he can make that case, he will win the election. >> i want to quote our numbers guy. it is to early to call it. i do think i is too early to call. i do think the debates we're going to have will be spectacular. i think everybody will watch it and loved it. we will have 24/7 debate about each debate. between each debate, it is going to be fantastic. i think we are in the preseason of the most exciting political season we have ever had. it is going to be awesome. one guy, a traditional candidate for president, republican who has run two or three times. your name is familiar. the democrats are feeding the hottest hand in the democratic party. watching him yesterday dealing with the cory booker line convinced me he still has the incredible articulation. th

technology on top of the $7 billion base included in this bill which already allows us to be the unchallenged global leader in developing and deploying nuclear weapons. i urge a yes vote on the polis-markey amendment, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. frelinghuysen: move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i rise in strong opposition to this amendment. assuring funding for the modernization of our nuclear weapons stockpile is our most national security issue in our energy and water bill. the secretary of energy must certify to the president that our nuclear stockpile is reliable. it's absolutely essential that these funds be put in the bill and kept in the bill. wet years of level funding that -- with the years of level funding that we put on, that's why the 2010 nuclear posture review concluded that additional funding was essential to ensure that our infrastructure was adequately maintained and that our warhe