. >> oh, it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes, knowing us. >> ifill: palin'sus tour-- part summer family vacation, part political tease-- is just the latest example of that unconventional style, which usually lives online. granting formal interviews only to fox news, where she is under contract, palin often engages in public debate through social media outlets like facebook and twitter. that unpredictable approach has made her a tea party favorite as well as a republican wild card. with or without palin in the race, there are already others hoping to woo those same voters, including minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. joining us from new hampshire is dan balz, national political correspondent for the "washington post." dan, this isn't your mother's campaign, is it, if this is, indeed, a campaign? >> well, i think the key question, gwen, is it is a campaign or not a campaign? so far it is not a campaign and i don't know that anybody other than sarah palin and her husband todd palin really know whether it's going to become a campaign. but it is an unconven

sarah palin is utterly unconventional. you doesn't have your usual political people doing her research and what republican candidate would go to new york city or philadelphia as part of the republican primary? if she did do it on purpose, who cares? politics is like that. i think rudy may have been there for that reason. that's part of what happened when you have ten people running for office and a lot will be in iowa and new hampshire at the same time. >> do you believe this isn't about publicity for her or keeping her in the headlines, that this is just a family vacation where he's going around to significant monuments and having pizza with donald trump? >> i think it's impossible to be sarah palin today without getting publicity for virtually anything she does in the public arena. so if she wants to take a tour to visit americana, it's going to happen. unless the day comes she says i'm not running for president, that's when the press will back off of her. that just comes with being sarah palin, no matter what. >> candy,

her answer should be i'm an unconventional maverick who doesn't play by the rules and roger aisles will not let me. we're joined by samantha bee live from des moines, iowa. thanks for joining me. i know governor palin says it's a family vacation. it does seem like a political campaign. how can she do this and keep her job as a fox news analyst? >> jon, for fox to fire sarah palin for taking a much needed vacation with the family that would be monstrous. i they that's how you run your business but some fake news organizations actually have standards. [laughter] >> jon: anyone else who hopped on a bus and went to iowa and all these other swing state and things, historical landmarks would be forced to declare whether they are running or not. gingrich, santorum lost their job for doing just that. fox has different rules for different people. >> they have the same rule for he everybody. if we like you, you can stay. they fired rick santorum when they googled him. [laughter] as for newt gingrich, the presidential election was really just a good excuse to let him go. what news network wants to

this was a personally who was thoroughly unconventional.e remarkable choices that would be hard to make even now but this is back in the '60s. you know, she at 17 conceived a child with an african man and married him at a time when there were nearly two dozen states with laws against interracial marriage. she then went off to indonesia with him at age six with her sons, had married an indonesian man. she went to indonesia at a time of political and social upheaval in that country. so over and over again she made remarkable choices and her story says a lot of life... sheds light on the president, the person who i think many americans don't fully understand. >> stephen: what drove her to do these things? if it was such an unusual thing, why would she go to indonesia? >> i think she really... she fell in love with an indonesian is what happened. she fell in love first with an african, that marriage blew up very quickly. she then fell in love with an indonesian and he had to go back to indonesia, she went with him and discovered a fascinating c

even more unconventional?ublicans to invite an obama impersonator to address their conference in new orleans. >> yes. my mother loved a black man and no she was not a kardashian. >>reporter: joke about obamagee boo in the republican crowd came when he joked about republican. >> you have the front runner mit romney. l now don't get me wrong mate make a great president along with his first lady, second lady, third lady. officials when he got to michelle bachmann. >> the other day she called me one term president. [applause]. >>reporter: microphone was shut off. and he was escorted away from the stage. >> as for governor perry advisors say he's looking at whether or not he still has enough time to raise the money you need to run for president. decision they say still several weeks away probably coming in july. jonathan karl abc news washington. >> if fbi is taking to the air waves to help find one of the most wanted fugitive. >> have you seen this woman? fbi is offering 100,000 dollars for tips leading to catheri

. >> reporter: with some unconventional lessons. >> i want you to try to put the toothpaste back in the tube. >> teaching that girls that gossip can be a lot like toothpaste. >> if we say something hurtful about another person we can't take it back. >> reporter: the goal is to help the girls grow stronger physically and emotionally. larissa is finally feeling better about herself. >> now i feel more confident about myself. >> reporter: and they become a team. >> girls on the run is so much fun! >> reporter: supporting one another all along the way. >> whenever, like, you're feeling sad, they cheer you up. >> reporter: all preparation for the tend-of-season 5k race, one that's not about speed, but about setting a goal and meeting it. >> when you look at your medal and award how do you feel? >> i feel proud. >> reporter: crossing this finish line and starting a new path in life. mara schiavocampo, nbc news, new york. >>> and that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- capt

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although counterinsurgency in some ways as many unconventional warfare things built in, and i remember early on talking to people doing my research what we should do in afghanistan is go after the powers, the centers of gravity, ignore the borders because people in charge and when he thinks it nor them as well. really tried to create change. one of the buzzwords i heard from people in special forces was insurgency is a social problem. these are guys who are trained to shoot, move, maneuver and they see this as a social problem, and one of them later went on to change the counterinsurgency program at west point said listen, we can't even solve teen pregnancy and drug use in the united states, which is a social problem. so you are telling us in three or four years we're going to fly to another country we don't speak the language, understand the social mores and can fix their social problems, too. so i always was rooting for those guys because using all kinds of different forms of power, soft and hard, to really look at this and the centers of gravity, you know, and to be happy with solut

. >> he is unconventional, he is hard-working and you know he's doing it not for the glory of ed lee and he's not using this as a stepping stone to run for higher office. >> reporter: lee truly has no interest in running. >> i really don't know that much about the election stuff outside of my own willingness to vote. >> reporter: he gave me an opening. >> would you vote for yourself if you were on the ballot for mayor? >> that's a political question. i never really talk public about what i vote on. >> reporter: so much for that. after the civil war, general william sherman declined to run for the presidency saying if nominated, i will not run. in the end, he avoided giving a sherman statement, giving his supporters that glimmer of hope. >> a san jose grocery store chain awarded scholarships to deserving students. the fundraising drive at bay area pueblo stores raised more than $270,000 for scholarships. this afternoon's event recognized about 100 scholarship winners and the generosity of donors to made it possible for the students to go to college. executives say with funding cuts, i

economist vince reinhart wrote papers with then-fed governor ben bernanke about unconventional policies the fed could use to boost growth. >> in principle, it could set the six-month interest rate to 0%, or it could go to the two- year or the five-year. and so, you expand the waterfront of what you cover. they could do that. i bet they'd be very uncomfortable about that. >> reporter: capping interest rates could be the third version of quantitative easing, a policy the markets have come to call "q.e.-3." in the first two rounds of q.e., the fed bought $2 trillion in bonds in order to drive down interest rates. actually capping interest rates would require the fed to buy as many treasury securities as needed to hit the cap, even if that meant buying up most of the market. and the only way the fed would do that, reinhart says, is if there is another economic crisis or clear signs of another recession. >> if anything, the fed is going to just hunker down, keep the size of it's balance sheet constant so it keeps its current accommodative stance, and just hope that provides enough stimulus t

this is really the run-up to an actual campaign for the white house, brian, this is as odd and unconventional a political trip as anyone can remember. which is just the way sarah palin says that she'd want it to be. >> thank you so much for your help today. >> yes. >> reporter: outside her hotel after visiting the gettysburg battlefields, sarah palin autographed anything put in front of her, including a t-shirt worn by one fan, and in one of her few statements to a press corps straining to follow her said once again she hasn't made up her mind about running. >> i don't know. i honestly don't know. it's still, you know, a matter of looking at the field. >> reporter: her "one nation" tour began with a motorcycle ride outside the pentagon on saturday. >> how are you? >> reporter: and by its conclusion will reportedly take her from washington, d.c. to new hampshire, where she's posted no schedule for reporters to follow. no need, she said. >> i'm having a great time with our family and our alaskan friends and our pennsylvania friends who have met us here today. >> sorry. >> reporter: however, the

boom in demand for natural gas is spurred by its relatively low price and a sharp increase in unconventional gas production such as that of shale gas. another factor behind the decline in nuclear power generation in some countries such as germany results from safety concerns. this comes after the march accident at a plant in fukushima raised many questions about nuclear power use. >>> and here's a recap of the latest market figures. that's all for this hour in business news. back to catherine with the main news. >> thanks very much, ai. >>> ban ki-moon has announced his intention of running for a second five-year term as secretary-general of the united nations. he is almost certain to be reelected as no other country is fielding a candidate. >> this morning, i sent a letter to the membership of the general assembly and the security council offering humbly myself for consideration for a second term as secretary-general of the united nations. >> reporter: ban told a news conference at u.n. headquarters in new york on monday. he says tackling global warming continues to be his priority. he also

to make a difference it was pretty unusual for the us congress and i would say it was rather unconventional for the united states democratic majority came up with a pretty extensive and in-depth report regarding the u.s. aid to afghanistan most of all this particular report revealed the quantity of the you as dollars spent in afghanistan is not equal to the quality regarding the expected result and equally the difference between the strategy the tactics and operational mode to get the job it is just p.t. there's some reports mostly globe over by international media and we'll probably be put on the backburner during the intensified deliberations regarding their scope and tempo over the us troops withdrawal from afghanistan or rather may not push us president obama to factor in this report will come in durations and completely overhaul the already bankrupt us strategy. here various state. let's take a look at another headlines from around the world. in yemen thousands gathered on streets across the country a week of the president signing read to sign radio decided he was forced to seek medica

. >> he's not the only person to make an unconventional campaign move this week. the presumed front-runner, mitt romney, announced that he was not going to participate in the iowa straw poll this august. >> that's exactly right, and for those who don't know, and haven't lived through the iowa straw poll as we have, for the republican party in iowa, this is like saying i'm not coming home for thanksgiving dinner to your own family. this is an affront to them because in iowa, no matter who you're for, you're for the caucus process and the greater glory of it and the straw poll is something everyone is supposed to compete in. romney has a balancing act in iowa. in the last campaign, he put a lot of effort into the state, worked very hard in the straw poll and came in second and that was a big problem because it undercut his campaign. now he has to work hard enough to do well in the caucuses but not so hard that he sets expectations too high so that it damages him for other states where he's to the a chance to did much better so he's trying to work out that balance. t

attack on board a ship government officials say the drills are aimed at improving the response to unconventional warfare. both areas has vowed to repay its debt for russian electricity payment to overnight was missed and moscow has to cut off the electrical supply to the country another route says in the midst of an economic crisis with prices rising am a value of its currency plummeting archer's on thomas has more on why dollar rusa struggling to pay its bills. people are panicking making a run on the banks and making a run on any types of goods that they can let me give you a little bit of a hint of the situation on the ground right now nikolai smallpox who is the economic minister in the country had a press conference today amidst said that he's sorry that he could not shoot himself and that he feels personally responsible for the current economic crisis inside the country now these could be comments that are dark humor if you will or made off the cuff but still for someone of that stature to be saying it is such a thing is very troubling to say the least well on the ground inside the country

barry pedersen reports on an unconventional treatment that's getting results. >> dairy, eggs, peanutsnuts and sesame seeds. >> reporter: for ten-year-old maya konoff, every bite carries the threat of death. >> a dose of benadryl, two epipens. >> reporter: her allergys so severe she carries her medicines everywhere she goes. >> it's a constant worry we live with every minute of everyday. she's ought of my sight, i'm worried. >> reporter: maya is one of an estimated six million children up to the age of 18 with food allergies. those estimates have doubled in five years. why in dramatic increase in >> we are able to easily treat any infections within antibiotics and so we're living much cleaner and our up immune system might be looking for a fight and end up attacking things it doesn't need to attack. >> reporter: the good news is, researchers are making progress. after discovering the foods causing the allergies may be the key to curing the allergies. dr. this doctor is among those testing this novel approach. kids get a small dose of the foods they're allergic to, sometimes mixed in pu

. >> reporter: almost everything about huntsman is unconventional. he's got a big mormon family, including an adopted daughter who he is raising hindu. he speaks chinese, not one, but two different dialects. yet he dropped out of high school to join a rock band. he was the most popular republican governor in america two years ago, and then gave it all up to serve as barack obama's ambassador to china. in an exclusive interview aboard his campaign plane, we asked huntsman if a moderate could win the republican nomination. >> if you look at my record, it's pretty much as a conservative problem-solver. people throw these labels around as if they mean something. >> reporter: you don't consider yourself a moderate? >> well, i don't use labels of any kind. >> reporter: not long before he became ambassador, huntsman was asked about congressional republicans, and i said, i don listen or read to what they say, because it is inconsequential. that was john boehner you were talking about. >> we learned some important lessons from that. i think the party and part

attack on board a ship government officials say the drills are aimed at improving the response to unconventional work. russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse the government legally has to provide housing for anyone leaving care disputer all over reports that often doesn't happen dunk in dilapidated. this looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home but twenty two year old mother of two lena has been told by social services that she's stuck here. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they keep telling us true parents somehow leave here they showed me a paper on how to build a house i told them that i had no phones i have no job i have to take care of kids and i ended up renting a place they said it's not top problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of to be on the russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution this flat was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told to fix it up but there's a tradition of absolutely desperate they didn't give me work bec

but assange teams to relish his unconventional childhood. >> people tell me they spent all their lifen one town, i think, you horrible thing. how do you survive. >> eventually, julian and his mother settled outside of melbourne. >> i had a horse. and i sold the horse and bought a computer, i was fascinated. >> for assange, it becomes a portal into a new world. he joins a group of hangers and under the screen name mendax, he taps into a secret networks, including the pentagon. by the time he was 20, assange was a sophisticated computer hacker. >> and this was before there was public access to the internet. this was a brave thing to go out and support the world with your mind. >> you an authorities would eventually bust the young assange. in 1991, he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. after a lengthy legal battle, he walked away with only a fine. but he caught a glimpse inside a hiding world. >> read the e-mails of the pentagon was an incredible thrill. >> that fascination would grow into a mission to change the world. >> the times we are going through at the mome

based on his videos, it may be an unconventional campaign. even more unconventional -- the decisions by republicans to invite a obama impersonator to address their conference in new orleans. >> yes, my mother loved a black man and no it wasn't a kardashian. the boos came when he joked about republicans. >> you got your front-runner mitt romney. don't get me wrong, he might make a great president. along with his first lady. second lady. and third lady. >> when he got to michele bachmann -- >> the other day she called me a one-term president. >> reporter: his microphone was shut off. and he was escorted away from the stage. as for rick perry, his advisers are looking at whether or not he still has enough time to raise the money you need to run for president. a decision, george, they say, is several weeks away in july. >> okay, jon karl. >>> let's bring in josh elliott with the morning's headlines. >>> we're going to begin with the midwest walloped with weather. two feet in 24 hours, that's how much the missouri river has risen now, breaking thr

the wars we have been in in vietnam have been unconventional. you don't fight an unconventional war with many, many troops. it cannot do it. it apparently has not sunk through. vietnam was a failure. afghanistan is going to be -- the russians could not do anything in nine years. what are we going to do? we are just going to lose more people if we stayed there until 2014. we will lose a couple more thousand people for virtually no reason because the government over there. we will have to leave eventually anyway. let them handle their own improbable ambs. militarily -- military we had back in september 9/11 did not stop what happened and it did not stop what happened in fort hood. a terrorist unconventional war cannot be fought conventionally. you can make cuts and turn it into a counter terrorism -- it could be bought differently, like special forces and what not. host: you talk about afghanistan and we will be talking later on in our last segment about the troop a drawdown and how it will actually worked out in afghanistan. coming up in about 45

in an unconventional manner. time is on her side. she knows she can draw the crowds. she can get the press to write the story, favorably or unfavorably. doesn't matter to her as long as the story is there and that's part of the narrative. >> part of the narrative this morning is pizza night with donald trump. i'm wondering how much does a trump endorsement mean to republicans at this point? >> broadly speaking, i don't think it has that kind of impact than let's say a president bush endorsement would have obviously. i think in terms of donald trump, a lot of the establishment in washington, d.c., see the effort as a sideshow. but out there among grassroots activists there was a concerted effort to get behind him and his effort. there will be those who pay some attention to who he supports or who he tips his hat to. clearly the dinner with sarah palin caused a lot of excitement and a lot of interest in that possibility with respect to her potential candidacy, but it's not as strong as it would have been had he sta

withdrawn because the fed has made clear that the continuation of the interest rate part of their unconventional policy, will continue. the fed has made that signal very clear. >> mohammed, what is your perspective? it is telegraphed. we know it's coming. but is the transition going to be that smooth? >> i'm a little more cautious and i live in the marketplace. it's not because it's not telegraphed. everybody knows qe2 will end at the end of this month. the reason why there's uncertainty is there's fundamental disagreement on the analytics of qe2, how qe2 operates. some people feel it operates through a stock effect. some people think it operates through a flow effect. the fundamental issue is we don't know, plus there's no historical precedent. so while the market knows that qe2 is going to end, the market is less clear as to what the consequences of that. in fact, you have people taking very extreme positions because they disagree on the analysis, not on the fact it's going to end, but how do you analyze it. >> pimco is one of those entities taking an extreme position, and a lot of people have

he is trying to take an unconventional approach in the early stages of this campaign.otorcycle in the utah desert is one way to do that, guys. >> we're going to ask him about that tomorrow, jim acosta, thanks very much. tomorrow we will have jon huntsman on our show, "american morning," around 8:30 eastern time. be sure not to miss it. >> we're looking forward to that. >>> fire crews are battling 12 new wildfires in texas alone. that brings the number of fires burning there up to at least 20. the forest service says some 500 homes are threatened and at this point more than 160 people have been evacuated. >> i've never seen anything like this in my life. such a beautiful forest. two days ago. look at it now. >> the toughest part about fighting this fire is mother nature. the wind is very, very strong. it's dry. we don't have -- we haven't had any rain in a long time. >> two inches since january, you know i'm praying for rain. >> two inches since january, amazing. so far this year, wildfires have reportedly burned nearly 3 million acres, the most since texas started keep

it's unconventional. doesn't look anything like i thought it would.life would look. >> you see the way things go in your family. my cousins, have kids and they're married and many of them for many years already. i assumed that would happen. i found the thing that i loved and that's where i've been racing towards, you know? and everything else was put in the back seat. >> you think you'll ever get married one day? >> i never thought i'd have kids. >> would you like to? >> what's happening right now. >> i'm asking you a question. >> would i like to be married? i don't know. >> did you envy your friends who are married or not? >> no, i don't in all honesty. >> in terms of your acting career, you could have taken the easy money that came after "sopranos." you chose not to. challenging roles. an incredible array of awards, you're a brilliant actress. >> thank you. >> when we go on a short break, i want to talk about two battles you fought against addiction and against cancer. >> i'll be here. ...was it something big? thing you ever saw? ...or something sma