united states stock market. we've seen the largest sell-off in the dow in about three months. the question is, is the sell-off gonna continue, angie? the oil spill still a major story. now the insurance and reinsurance companies are starting to add up the losses. which come to $900 million, beejal. and numbers keep going higher, angie. and days after that blockbuster merger between united and continental. both those stocks down 10% yesterday alone. other airline stocks saw a big drop this week as well. left for nearly dead. united airlines has risen from the ashes of chapter 11 bankruptcy to secure it's ranking as the world's largest airline by merging with continental. the $3.2 billion dollar stock deal is expected to be completed by the 4th quarter of 2010. but already, united is winning the title of come back kid. it could not have been much worse. in short, united faced turbulence times with a slow down in business travel because of 9-11, pay raises for it's pilots, skyrocketing oil prices, a loss of $2.4 billion dollars, and the inablitily to raise capital. all which caused the company to crash land in chapter 11 bankruptcy in december 2002. "every airline in

how about the banks here in the united states? story's pretty simple, the senate's voting on parts of that financial reform bill, we're finally getting it. the first amendment from barbara boxer set to add line saying that no taxpayer money will be used to fund any bailout of any financial institutions. it looks like we've got some kind of deal here that $50 billion bailout fund it looks like it may be dead. we'll get news on that. certainly, there are some the banks, the other ones, commodities, for the commodities end because i want you to see this was a general puke-out of stocks today. look at them, all of these ended at lows of the day and they closed a couple of hours ago. how about the dow transports, my biggest story in the last two days, up yesterday, all 20, up 135 points. today, all 20 down, down better than 160 points. you try trading on that, it's a very, very tough market. basically, become a momentum trader. take a look at the retailer. same situation. all of them up two, three, four points. yesterday your jcpenney, your ab

dc united is the most storied team in the history of major league soccer. his year. two goals scored. 13 goals allowed. when would the carnage stop. united hosting kansas city to night -- tonight. a little spin right there. and then the left foot into the onion bag. first australian ever to score in the mls. then in the 34th minute he does it again. alsip finishes. they have broken the seal. playoff hockey tonight, the flyers, the team the caps would have played, game three against the bruins. mark greki shoving in the rebound and the caps are kicking themselves. they lead -- it's not 0-0. it's 4-1. three games to nothing. finally braves manager bobby cox spells his name cox. we point this out because senator jay rockefeller are a session up on capitol hill today celebrating the 50 years of baseball and they got coxae cake. unfortunately there was not a spell check. >> oh, no. >> because once bobby has gone into the adult film business. [ laughing ] >> that ain't right. so we tried to keep that taste full. but it's only so tasteful. >> we don't know how you

and the united states blue angels -- the storied, famous, however you want to describe them, they'reers is that man right there, lieutenant john thompson, we call him ted. and he's a maintenance officer. and lieutenant thompson keeps the airplanes flying. wednesday, the blues take to the air and show the navy brass how it's done. >> and everyone's in site. ted thompson joining us on coffee with and we have a web extra for you. local guy that's done real good. you stay with us, we have sharon gibala's wjz-13 tv traffic control and first first and more. we'll be back. ,,,,,,,, i'm going in. troubleshooting runs on dunkin'. america runs on dunkin'. with our new iced dark roast coffee. grab a delicious cup today. america runs on dunkin'. >>> 64 degrees now and 63 is the dew point. we've seen the scattered fog and we'll have fog areawide. we'll have a dank flow to the east and still, 60 in ocean city and 55 in oakland and 64 in cumberland and pax river and naval air. and 62 elkton. 61 degrees in easton and 62 now, down to 63 in westminster and 64 in columbia and annapolis. 63 rock hall an

. >> spain has better credit story there than the united states does. >> absolutely. >> i'll show you charts later, europe's manufacturing index, rising quite smartly. not greece, but the rest of europe. scott wapner, you mentioned how the index dropped like a stone. i want to ask you, nasdaq got hit the hardest. is nasdaq going to lead us down? that's that's an unfair question to you, but is the chatter that it will lead us down having led us up during this great rally? >> it's great point. nasdaq was up some 40 something percent in 2009. it's hit in 2010. a lot of their earnings commentary has been positive, yet technology is a place where investors are taken profits off the table in almost any scenario that gave them a reason to, whether fear or economic concerns. let me take a stab at what bob and rick were talking about. you mentioned spain being put together with greece. i say no, not yet. the problem is it's caused people to move away from risk assets. and you've seen that move into the dollar today and that's one of the reasons why you saw the commodity stocks selloffs go badl

over 80% of the people that i've met in northern mexico had been in the united states and many cases a year or more. my favorite storyabout this was a guy that immigrated illegally by the most common method that i found of illegal immigration from northern mexicans has been to simply overstate tourist visa. as he crossed on his tourist visa, 72 our visa, went to las

with the drug gangs in mexico and what appears to be higher anxiety in the united states about immigration. how to these two storiesxist? how you bring the good news of the first story to bear on the second story of anxiety and worry? when will we see payoffs from all of these things? >> i think perseverance is very important. there is no alternative to what we are doing which is enforcing block and try to submit criminals to the prosecution and prosecute them in our system of law. we're working on the reef formation of our criminal system to be more efficient in prosecuting these cases. sometimes we want to do things as fast as we can in order to obtain results but we have to be very solid about this. we are committed for these things to work and we believe that the cycle of violence will decrease at some time in the next few months. the acceleration of the violence is getting slower. we believe we will see diminishing numbers of by the end of this year. this will be a curb in which it will be held by institutional strength and institutional -- by an institutional process that will make this a stable situation. >>

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host: stories that need to be told, do you find as you do these flights that you are hearing stories abo units and individuals that have not made it into any kind of history so far? gut: we do stories that have never been told, which is incredible. quite often the world war ii terans, home to talk about it. but their family will tell you that they would wake up in the night, screaming. back in the 1940's they did not have posttraumatic stress disorder. they did not talk about it at all. host: is anyone making an effort to get those stories? a couple of years ago i remember there was an oral history project under way. guest: for any family member of a veteran, i encourage them to contact the departmt of veterans affairs. there are a couple of groups out there atteting to support your it -- oral history archival. host: branson, missouri. caller: my grandfatr was in the airborne. if you read the history books it shows that they did occupy. my grandfather claimed that they landed two weeks before the fight was over. rarely did he ever talk about it. we wereatching a show of the year before he died

story breaking. the president of the united states went to louisiana to view firsthand the oil spill.eynolds wolf is there to bring the latest. >> reporter: when the president came here, they greeted him with bad weather. it's still inically mat for the time being as the rain falls and the conditions with the wind and the effect on the ocean and the gulf of mexico. it's continuing to push the oil closer to shore. report ofs waves from six to 12 feet. it's very, very rough out there to say the least. speaking of the oil, where is it? there have been reports it's three to nine miles away from the mainland. there have been traces of the sheen, the thin coating of oil, traces making it to the barrier islands. the federal government placed a ten day, not exactly a delay, but restriction on fishing from the mississippi river clear over to pensacola. keep in mind, john, and viewers across america, it's a $2.4 billion industry. it's crucial for the people who work on the ocean. john. >> what is the latest, i know you were talking earlier about the marine life coming on shore. the impact on bi

united brand. no word yet on what impact it will have on fares or routes. >>> a major story the week is the jobs report released on friday. what does it mean and what does it tell us about the economy today? joining me to interpret and explain it is hilda solis, secretary of labor. great to have you on the program. welcome back. >> hi, how are you? >> i'm doing great. what's your take on the employment report? we saw 290,000 new jobs created. the unemployment rate at 9.9%. better than many expected, but the unemployment rate went up. so how would you characterize this month? >> well, let me show you my chart here. i'd like to show you where we were last year in april. we were losing over 500,000 jobs. obviously we've gone up. the last two cycles we've added more than 500,000 jobs in the last four months. and the gdp is up as you know for the last three months. the tickup of the 9.9 unemployment rate is because 800,000 people who were discouraged from looking for jobs are now back in looking for jobs. so there will be a readjustment there but i think overall this is a god sign that we see broad coverage

host: stories that need to be told, do you find as you do these flights that you are hearing stories about units and individuals that have not made it into any kind of history so far? guest: we do stories that have never been told, which is incredible. quite often the world war ii veterans, home to talk about it. but their family will tell you that they would wake up in the night, screaming. back in the 1940's they did not have posttraumatic stress disorder. they did not talk about it at all. host: is anyone making an effort to get those stories? a couple of years ago i remember there was an oral history project under way. guest: for any family member of a veteran, i encourage them to contact the department of veterans affairs. there are a couple of groups out there attempting to support your it -- oral history archival. host: branson, missouri. caller: my grandfather was in the airborne. if you read the history books it shows that they did occupy. my grandfather claimed that they landed two weeks before the fight was over. rarely did he ever talk about it. we were watching a show of the year be

story breaking. the president of the united states went to louisiana to view firsthand the tragic impact of the oil spilll still spewing. reynolds wolf is there to bring the latest. reynolds? >> reporter: when the president came here one of the first thing that greeted him was bad weather, weather still inclement for the time being. conditions with the wind and its effect on the ocean. off on the gulf of mexico, choppy conditions continuing to push the oil closer to shore. there have been reports of waves anywhere from 6 to 12 feet. it is real -- very, very rough out there to say the least. now, in speaking of the oil, question is, where exactly is it? there have been reports the heavier crude has been anywhere from, say, three to nine miles afrom the mainland. now, one of the newest bits of information i have for you is the federal government has place a ten-day, not exactly a day but rather a restriction on fishing in the northern gulf, from the mst river clear over to pensacola. keep in mind, john and viewers across america, that is a $2.4 billion industry for this region. it's crucial for the people

united states. over here, a few locations i want you to see relevant in the story. let's start over here.entioning germany, german chancellor angela merkel. she's saying europe stands at a crossroads with the economic crisis in greece. a lot of european nations caming to to promise $146 billion to help greece. however, there is a hole in that, as well. slovakia right now, potentially standing in the way, the prime minister saying you can't give greece any loan before we see them doing their homework. that's not necessarily fears that slovakia can block that but there are fails that that assistance money will not come through and it will hit our stocks, our 401(k)s, in the united states, and this is the location of greece, where we're getting more information by the minute of people trapped, firebombs outside banks, all that going on throughout athens and greece, kyra. >> josh, thanks. >>> today is the last day of campaigning in britain's general election. it's such a tight race that you can bet the candidates will be shaking hands and kissing babies up to the very last minute. prime minis

more than 75% of the 260 wrongful convictions in the united states all overturned by post conviction dna evidence. watch closely as you hear one man's story about what can happen in a case of mistaken identity. >> i just broke down and started crying. >> reporter: marvin anderson spent 15 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. >> i'm living proof every day that eyewitness identification is not enough to convict any person. >> reporter: anderson landed behind bars because of an inaccurate eyewitness account. he was ultimately exonerated by dna evidence. [ screaming ] >> okay. now. >> reh the help of maryland criminology professor and his unsuspecting students, we staged a crime in their lecture hall. [ screaming ] >> reporter: as often happens, the perpetrator of the crime was only visible to startled witnesses for a matter of seconds. >> i jumped back and i was disoriented. lights were off. very confused what was going on. i was more focussing on her. she was the one screaming. >> reporter: many students focused on the victim. >> she had blondish hair midway down her back. >> she is period to be white. >> she looked like an average

. >> we don't have enough rising labor income in the united states to turn the consumption story strongly. the income is not there. it's not there with college graduates in the labor force. >> but the spirit of dennis' question, you both sound very bearish on the u.s. economy. is that how we should -- >> my view is, we had a big v down. we're coming back on the inventory recovery. now we go flat, very slow growth. we've got a long stretch of it. >> i would say bearish relative to what people expected in california, new jersey, florida. we have growth. you have a sustained economic expansi expansion. but probably not going to be enough to get us back to the america people envisioned three to five years ago. >> thank you both. >> on that happy note, invest in europe now. thank you, guys. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >>> up next, they say there's always a bull market somewhere. jim cramer says that. looks like the bull market is running in the art world. >> art history made at christie's last night. more than $106 million for a picasso. >>> art market history in the making this week at ch

does the united states have some kind of official policy with regard to aliens? that's next. >>> just ahead on "360," two breaking news storiesad as the oil spill is in the gulf, we're going to tell you about a secret government memo painting an even grimmer picture. >>> in arizona, with battle lines drawn over the immigration law, a tense scenario likely just got a little worse. a deputy patrolling near the border was shot by an alleged illegal immigrant. more on both those stories at the top of the hour. more "larry king live" in just a moment. my wife, i think she finds a new app every week. this week it's recipes. for my son, it's great on long car trips. and me, i use it for just about everything. yep, i think we'd all be lost without my iphone. [ gorilla ] nice move. but can your retirement income keep pace with changing interest rates? this new variable annuity from axa equitable has an option that can help your retirement income move with changing interest rates. but what do i know? i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. [ female announcer ] make the retirement cornerstone annuity from axa equitable part of your

united states of america. jim axelrod, cbs news, bridgeport, connecticut. >>> this morning on "the early show" we'll have more on that storyestigation into the times square bombing attempt. i'm michelle gielan. this is the "cbs morning news." [ school bell rings ] [ female announcer ] kids who don't eat breakfast may not be getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. a nutritious start to the day is essential. that's why carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies the nutrients of a balanced breakfast. so kids get the protein and calcium they need to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. ♪ carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, carnation instant breakfast essentials. . >>> hello again, yes, it's cinco de meyo and it's a nice day. there's the waning moon i talked about. and marty's at first warning weather. >> i prefer to see it as a half moon. beautiful, beautiful in the sky today. let's look at the graphi

the united states, canada and great britain have issued travel alerts because of the dangerous conditions. >>> we have more stories of survival from the tirey plane crash in india where one man said everything seemed okay as the plain approached landing on saturday and then within second, the plane shudder ped started swinging violently from side to side and then it crashed and burst into flames. 158 people died in the crash. only eight people survived, mainly by jumping out of the plane. >>> coming up income, smart phones are about to get even smarter. >> mobile digital television coming to d.c. we'll show you how to watch some of your favorite channels live with you are on the go. >>> coming up later, it is not just you. being forced to hear other people's cell phone conversations can be downright annoying and it turns out there is a scientific reason why. we'll take a break and be right back. paou >>> fans of the fox hit 24 will want to be in television tonight. the series finale airs tonight here on fox 5. a two-hour sendoff. that is the 4 series finale tonight on fox 5 at 8:00. >>> first it was vcrs and then

united states of america. jim axelrod, cbs news, bridgeport, connecticut. >>> this morning on "the early show" we'll have more on that storyestigation into the times square bombing attempt. i'm michelle gielan. this is the "cbs morning news." [ school bell rings ] [ female announcer ] kids who don't eat breakfast may not be getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. a nutritious start to the day is essential. that's why carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies the nutrients of a balanced breakfast. so kids get the protein and calcium they need to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. ♪ carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. >>> good morning. i'm andrea roane. the suspect in the attempted car bombing in new york city is going to face charges this morning. he said he received training in pakistan and he is facing terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges. >>> police in charlottesville, virginia are investigating whether a lacrosse player made threats to a team player he is accused of killing. they say he kicked in the door of yeardley love's bedroom. >>>

it's much harder to tell the story of say housing dim nation in the north or west as a morality play that builds into the idea of united states as having over come the problems of the civil rights area and country. i don't think we are. we are trying to talk about other issues. not just the familiar stories. >> you explain it in the process. will you tell that story? >> we tell the conference. we chose half of the contributors to saw themselves as southern historians and the other half. we got gymmy carter to give the address. -- jimmy carter to give an address. he started to tell us that we knew more about history than any historians. we did to produce the book. that's how it came about. >> how controversial are you finding this? are you finding the generationallism in your thesis? >> i think there's a debate about this. sometimes what we are trying to say is misinterpreted. we're not trying to say every place is the same. that alabama is the same as new york. when we create binary models like the red states and blue states, defactor and de jure reis segregation. de facto came to mean the opposite. what happens if we

emerged about six years ago in his -- in his first tell-all story that was published first in chinese and then with anne thurston here in the united states in a very good book called "the -- the private life of chairman mao." c-span: let's go back to that list again. winston lord. >> guest: winston lord, henry kissinger's close aide when history was being made at the -- at the creation on china, al -- always came from a -- born with a silver spoon, came from a very rich family, the pillsbury food family. and -- but on his own, went to tufts, went to the fletcher school of diplomacy, married a -- a -- a wonderful and talented artist, betty bowlord, and had his own ambitions to someday become a -- first an ambassador and then a -- and then secretary of state. but because in the -- in the bush administration he -- he hit the ceiling and -- o -- over president bush's trip to china, which turned into kind of a public relations disaster, in which win lord was blamed for, he then bolted the republicans, basically, and advertised himself as a -- as a human rights liberal to the incoming clinton administration and carried that torch into t

add it all up, what matters to the united states, and i think you were right, melissa, i like what you did at the top of the show. it's an individual corporate story. but i don't think at this point it's a macro story. >> steve, let me ask you on a macro level from this standpoint, we needed global coordination, all central banks. the united states right now needs the efforts of the ecb. is the credibility of the ecb in essence lost because of this? ? i don't think it's lost. i think it's damaged. i think the ecb was late to the game in terms of the quantitative easing. i think that's what's sort of inside your question there. there was a lot of criticism. and in a lot of ways, i know federal reserve bankers here in the united states were a little bit miffed that europe wasn't more on board a little bit earlier in helping the globe get out of its funk there and then they eventually came on board. and they may be frankly paying a price right now for being a little bit too late and a little bit too late in terms of the stimulus they gave their economies. good b.k., i want to rope you in here. you've been standing by on this conversation. do you buy

intellectual artist area to his dismay that the united states continued to institute slavery as the basis of the economy and one of my chapters tells a story that has not been told before, which is humboldt involvement, the way his name was taken at in the cause of abolitionist in the united states. this question as he watched the progress of the of progress in the united states in his lifetime was what is the nature of his legacy. and for that, i turned to cosmos, the last book, that he published, which had reaching success in the united states. so by 1845 thomas passed forward in our generation, humboldt was known in the united states mostly of the explorer in the recorder exotic american tropics, the author of, for example, this particular diagram showing donation of planned on chimborazo, founding documents and plant geography. it had been nearly 20 years since a major new work by humboldt had appeared in english. then he began to publish cosmos and everything changed here to put this in to show the kind of spread. this is one of the major privative of illustrations of humboldt, with the charter to create a kind of the language for thi

unite people from all over the world. >> these will air in arizona, but it is an inspiring message from you about your success story. n this public service announcement does it say repeal the law. why a softer approach? >> this was done before everything was happening. recognizing how much we represent the united states. that's democrats, leaders that we've been working to protect the image of the latinos in a better way. we tell the united states how much we appreciate this country, how much we contribute to this country and how much we want to give back. including a soldier, a doctor, i feel, you know, people recognize that the way it is now, we're all criminals. it's definitely a lot of things that need to be fixed. >> but supporters of the law in arizona say they're not trying to portray all of you as criminals but they're trying to portray those who come in illegally as criminals, especially now recently the violence with all the drug war. if you look at the national polls, people support this law. 51% of the people think it's about right and 9% say they don't think it goes far enough. a rockie mountain poll say

incumbent, he had gotten wrapped up in this jack abramoff story, and suddenly, he was being challenged by the guy who least looked like a united states senator. he was a farmer from big city, montana. he is from the outskirts of big sandy -- he was a farmer from big sandy, montana. he had lost three fingers in an accident when he was a child on his arm, and it became a question -- a child on his farm. i pay a lot of attention to that race and eventually went out to montana -- i paid a lot of attention. after he became a senator. one of the big stories in the book, and he likes to say that he saved my life, and i actually acknowledged that in the book, because i left his farm on a snowy day, and i tried to go back to my hotel, when the wrong way down the road and got stuck in the snow -- went the wrong way in the road, and i was looking around with nothing but snow piling up, and the way i got out is because he came in his tractor and pulled my car out and sent me on my way. host: did you spend time in his home? guest: i did. host: why? guest: i do not know. he is a nice guy. i asked if i could do this book about this freshman

story. suddenly he was being challenged by the guy who least looked like the united states senator. he was a farmer from montana. he is from the outskirts of big sandy. he had lost three fingers in an accident when he was a child on his farm. it became a question of whether democrats could take this seat. ipad a lot of attention to that race. i even julie went to montana. -- i paid a lot of attention to that race and eventually went to montana. one of the stores in the book is that he likes to say saved my life and i acknowledged that in the book because i left his farm and tried to get back to my hotel on a snow day. i went the wrong way down the road and got stuck in the snow. suddenly, i was looking around with nothing but snow piling up. eventually, i got out because john tester in his tractor came and pulled out my car and sent me on my way. >> did you spend time in his home? >> i did. >> why did you that you follow him that closely? >> one of the shocking questions -- i do not know. he is a nice guy, for the most part. i am shocked at what people do if you ask. i asked if i co

united states. women over the age of 35 might be eligible to test a new type of mammogram being offered in several cities. it provides a 3 d image of breast tissue. diana gonzalez has the storyfrom one of those test cities, miami for a. >> the women's imaging center, one of 10 sites in the country testing the system. while it looks like a regular mammogram machine, multiple images are recorded of the breast. >> it takes a three-dimensional image of the breast, and we literally looked through the breast page by page, millimeter by millimeter. >> those images are then looped into a movie that takes you through breast tissue. in this case, revealing a cancerous mass. >> we see the spider with the belly, with the legs. if you think about the tennis ball that gets thrown into the hedges, you know is there, you just cannot see it. with this, we are able to peel back leaf by leaf until the tennis ball is exposed. >> this clinical trial compares 3 d reconstruction to digital flat mammogram images. nurse daphne price is one of the participants. >> i heard about it around the time i was due for my annual screening mammogram. i thought it would be good, because the information gathered

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united states. they seem kind of silly or ridiculous but often there is a story there that really is an important part of history. >> host: wichita kansas, robert independent call for michael trinklein. what do you think, robert? >> caller: robert, start over if you could. i didn't have the bottom-up. >> caller: its kind of interesting the european union is a confederation of independent nations and the united states is likewise of independent nations and the constitution of the united states it says in there all rights not here and specifically granted to the federal government reserve to the states and the people and i would think one of those rights would be to take the ball and go home and not be a part of that consideration any more. i wonder what your guests opinion is of that. >> host: michael trinklein? >> guest: it's interesting. i'm glad the call brought that up. in "the wall street journal" i wrote that it is illegal and i think i made a mistake there because it is not illegal as your call suggests it's not talked about specifically in the constitution so in theory the call might be right b

[applause] he walks across the stage to be commissioned as an officer in the united states marine corps. at is a story of honor, courage, and commitment. that is a story that represents all this academy is about, all that stands for. let me leave you with advice that only a graduate of this prestigious academy s the right to offer. it comes from the personal writings of doug zembec. he wrote, be a man of principle. fight for what you believe in. keep your word. live with integrity. be brave. believe in something bigger than yourself, and serve your country, a teacher, mentor, give something back to society. lead from the front, and you can, for your fears. ladies and gentlemen, to me, that is what makes you midshipmen. that is the definition of who you are and who you will be. that is why i know with absolute certainty, after serving in high public office for over 37 years, that our country will reach strong -- will be strong for generations to come. so congratulations to you all. your future is literally america's future. make a brave. thank you. may god bless america, and may god bless the united st

talent pool they have at their disposal to come back to the united states is simply not as good as they may have hoped. so part of the good news story here is even though this was a serious attempt, like the attorney general said, he wasn't that good. and that may be a sign of the type of threat we have to deal with. it doesn't mean the threat is not real, it just means the talent pool used to staff it not what we were used to, 9/11, and even with najy buelah azazi. >> michaelis acould have, i love it. we're going to cover this story throughout the show tonight. coming up, we look at the pakistan connection. eight arrests over there and two former cia officials. how much came from a blowback from what we're trying to do. of trying to catch the guys in that region in pakistan. but the race gets tighter in pennsylvania between senator arlen specter who became a democrat, and democrat joe sestak, the little engine that could, apparently. he's getting close. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. national car rental? that's my choice. because with national, i roll past the counter... and choose any car in the aisle. oh, buck chooses

united states. a lot of these proposals may seem kind of silly and ridiculous, but often there is a story that is anmportant part of our history. host: wichita, kansas, michael, independent caller. robert, start all over if you can. i did not have the button on. caller: good morning. i find this talk about states and secession and all that stuff kind of interesting. you know, the european union is a confederation of independent nations. the united states is likewise a confederation of 50 independent nations. in the constitution of the united states, it's this -- it says that although it's not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved -- that all rights not specifically granted to the federal government are re served to the states and people. i think that one of the rights is to go home and not be part of the federation anymore. i wonder what your guest thinks about that. guest: it is interesting. i am glad the caller brought that up. in "the wall street journal," i wrote that seceding from the union is illegal. i may have made a mistake there. in theory, the caller may be right. bu

story. it was a fairly complicated one. iraqis were also speculating the unitedmusing to hear because i think the minute we do engage, there is immediately a cry that we are interfering in iraqi politics, so i tried to show them the role the the election process would be free and fair, and more recently, vice president biden was the point person on this question, the invalidation of some of the candidates, but there seems to be a bit of a struggle to determine what the right amount of american involvement is, when is it too little and too much? i did feel that many iraqis we spoke with wanted the united states to do more to prevent undemocratic power plays that are clearly so -- still going on. my bumper sticker would be that the sunnis think we should be doing more to prevent the shia from manipulating them, but they all think somehow the u.s. president mitigates the problems and helps prevent further polarization. let me turn to kurdish-arab relations. . orried that this is he new fault line in iraqi society, that this is something that could lead to violence a

story as it develops. >> the president got on the phone and said to me, "judge,ryi would like to announce you as my selection to begin nep[f$l associate justice of the united states supreme court." and i said to him, i caught my breath and started to cry and said "thank you, mr. president." . . >> how do you see this playing out in the coming days? do you anticipate a bipartisan vote in the final passage? >> there were three consecutive days with the republicans voting to filibuster the bill. they wanted to stop it from coming for consideration on the floor of the senate. meanwhile, those on the left of the stage or having committee hearings of carl levin, the permanent subcommittee on investigations with lloyd blankfein and the folks from goldman sachs making a spectacle, which was witnessed by the world. the republicans senator started to come up to the leadership and say, we're on the right set of the issue -- the wrong side of the issue. we're seeing more and more amendments. we are finding some republicans want to join us. my guess is we will have a substantial number of republicans join us for pulp -- for passing wall street or form. i think they rec

section 1202 paragraph a of the united states code which says whoever abducts someone for ransom or otherwise is liable to criminal prosecution. and if you know the story betty hill, stanton friedman's book, herb short-termer, the nebraska highway patrolman, he spoke of witnesses, callahan of the faa. >> larry: i got to get a break. you're making a strong point. one question i always ask, why did they land in wyoming? why not new york? >> i'll tell you that later. >> larry: or chicago. maybe we'll get answers, ahead. >> larry: i love that. stephen hawking weighed in on what alien life might be like on other planets. geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> larry: i love that. stephen hawking weighed in on what alien life might be like on other planets. here is what he had to say. >> the laws of physics appear to be the same every

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united states. miniscule casualties here compared to the millions of russians killed by stalin in the '30s and i guess hitler by the in the '40s. while that story ever be told comprehensive list of? how the russians resisted germans? well, it's another miracle. you see, he was bizarre in the first world war was no longer an autocrat. russia was gradually moving toward a liberal system. it had a parliament, not quite like the british and the french. nonetheless, it was allied with britain and france and so forth. and the russians collapsed because the russian people didn't want to fight. here there is russian ruled by a cruel dictator, whose people have murdered or imprisoned millions of russians. and the russians fought. who knows bikes you see, as i told you, our life is full of unintended consequences. and the russians were invaded, and they fought much better than in the first world war, when actually had hitler won, they would have been at his liberated of communism. didn't make any difference. you know, it's very -- is not simple, but again, you see, this is my formulation, and this is why i have such a great admiration for churchill. seco

we're talking about a four-story, 100-ton concrete-and-steel box. it's now one giant unit solution to containing the disastrous oil spill threatening sea life and livelihoods all along the gulf coast. here's what this complicated, this completed box looks like. right now, a barge is hauling it 50 miles offshore to the site of the blown-out undersea well. once in place, the box will be lowered 5,000 feet to a position just over the ruptured oil pipe. if all goes according to plan, it will sifon some of the more than 200,000 gallons of oil that has been spewing into the gulf each day since the big oil rig exploded and sank back on april 20th. to visualize this, imagine an upside down funnel. an upside down funnel. >>> if it works, and it's a big if, bp plans to lower a second smaller container to deal with a second leak in the pipe. you'll recall the pipe originally had three leaks. and last night a victory, of sorts, in this battle. bp succeeded in capping one of those leaks. now, that didn't cut the flow of oil, but bp says it makes it easier to deal with the other two. >>

let's get stories we're following for you around the world today. specifically out of the united states, bp is expecting to plug one of three holes where the under water well is leaking into the gulf of mexico and install a containment device within a week. the 70-ton dome is seen as the best home to contain the leak. roughly 276 million gallons of oil have spilled into the gulf since april 20th. that blast, of course, sank the deep water horizon rig. now congress has raiseded the measure to lift the liability limit for economic damage to the spill for $10 million. bp is responsible for all the cleanup costs. company executives met with lawmakers behind closed doors on tuesday. >> bp is now known as british petroleum. if this leak is not shut off soon, it will become known as bayou polutta. and they will be known that way forever. whatever resources are needed, they must put into this effort with no month object. >> and a hearing has been scheduled for next wednesday in london. bp is now trading up about 0.5%. ross. >> it has lost around 20 billion of its market capitalization si

story that's got me fired up tonight. the republican party. they just can't stand the fact that the president of the united states, barack obama, is keeping americay will never be able to bring themselves to give him any credit whatsoever. and at this hour, the times square bomber is sitting in a jail cell, and he is making major confessions. the government complaint, well, they say that he's even fessed up to receiving explosives training in pakistan. yet all the right wing can do is complain. they were at it priority and early this morning. >> guess what? faisal shahzad is a registered democrat, and the registered suv had an obama sticker

story from the banks of the huangpu river in china. that's in shanghai, where ray suarez has been reporting for our global health unit. off at the huge international as part of his trip, he stopped off at the huge international expo 2010, which launched there this month. jeffrey brown spoke with him yesterday. >> two years ago was the olympics in buying. now the world's fair in shanghai. another chance for china to show its new place in the world, right? >> a lot of worlds fairs over the jeerz, jeff, have only able to attract two-thirds, three-quarters, of the world's nation to come to its playground. when china anouxed it was going to host the world expo in 2010, it got, properlyly, everybody to come. close to 200 nations and continents and regional groups around the world are represented here with civilians. it's part trade fair, part nationalist festival, part cultural events. but china certainly has shown its power as a cob vening country. it snapped its fingers, and the world is here. >> so what are you seeing here? what are all these countries, including the u.s., doing with their exhibitions? >> well, there's a

we told the story it's the pick lift the week here in the northeast. the lower third of the unitedornia, there's a fire threat. gusts could be as high as 50 miles an hour. they're currently this morning working on a fire in riverside county, california. meanwhile in the pacific northwest, the story is the rain and at the highest elevations, mountain snow. it looks dismal in places from the twin cities through sections of the ohio valley, but keep in mind by the time you get to the end of the weekend, you'll be flirting with 90 degrees in the warmest temperatures you've seen in minneapolis and st. paul since last august. here we go, everyone. it's going to be a great weekend in the midwest, sunshine, blue skies, highs in the upper 80s and low 90s. just the perfect weekend to transform your backyard into a vacation spot, so go out and get patio furniture and play sets all ready for the kids and get yourself prepared for the sum are because it is spoken upon u. that's quick look at our national map. here's an early look at what's going on in your area. >> announcer: this supersized we

stories from the newspaper this morning. toyota is facing another probe from the united states, as they launched an investigation to see if they fail to report the defects in certain models. this was one month after they paid a $16.4 million fine, that the company knowingly was hiding defective piping. there were the delay rods, and this prompted 21 complaints to the national highway safety administration. no one was killed before they recall the vehicles in september 2005. this covered 938,000 vehicles. fannie mae, coming under question again in the new york times this morning, for their request for 8.4 billion in federal aid. this comes at the inconvenient time, for the obama administration that is pushing financial regulations. the government has transferred $137 billion to fannie mae, ever since they took over the finance giants in 2008. the democrats want to hold off the policy before the midterm election. republicans say that this is a priority. i think that this is a fair thing to say -- florida, on the republican line. caller: good morning. [unintelligible] i want to have somebody who has rights -- >> david, i'd like y