unquote. well, quite frankly, mr.resident, i believe that she bent the constitution when she ruled in the maloney case that the rights -- the right to bear arms was not a fundamental right of the american people. i have repeatedly said that the decisions made by the supreme court affect the lives of every american. after taking into consideration judge sotomayor's answers to my questions, reviewing her decisions that appear to have departed from the normal principles of jurisprudence, i find little predictability in her decisions and the implications they might have. i'm concerned by the several examples where i believe judge sotomayor strayed from the rules of strict statutory construction and legal precedence and went with her own deeply held beliefs while providing little in the way of explanations. therefore, mr. president, i am unable to support her nomination to the supreme court. i realize that at the conclusion of the next several days, judge sotomayor has the votes to be a chief justice to the supreme court.

and educational organization that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice, unquote. the college has more than 76,000 members and is the largest organization of inb@ in what they said, que, that remark of president obama was ill informed and dangerous. and we would dismayed by this charactezati ofon the work surgeons do. surgeons make decisions about recommending operations based is right for the patient, unquote. >> question, was it a mistake for president obama to suggest that a surgeon would remove a child's tonsils in order to make more money? mort. >> it's the kind of political charge in this environment and in my judgment isn't going to get them anywhere. what he is going for is the defeat for services program. by every single procedure, every single visit. every single prescription is a part of the bill that is paid for by the federal government and right now there are no incentives to keep that system under control. that's what he didn't introduce in his healthcare program and what he should have done. that's what is causing run away healthcare costs, which i

but, that they will try to, quote-unquote, ram something through. when really it is more important to get it right than to get it done quickly. do you think about that? and how there is going to be added pressure when the congress returns to get something passed and that it might not be the best interest of america? >> well, yeah, i think so and the president needs an accomplishment and he can't pay down health care reform and remember this was a big issue for him going back to the democratic primaries. so, he needs to have something that he can point to. the problem i think he faces is that, as you pointed out, what he has been championing is increasingly less popular i think you have him, trying to make a case for something he campaigned on which turns out not to be that popular when people see the specifics of it and even a little bit -- you're in a box, because if he quote-unquote wins i think it could actually have lasting political damage, especially, if he goes to the reconciliation route and tries, anything else, to pass it through a secret

am disappointed about the attempts to characterize the behavior of americans as quote un-american, unquote. we should no not be stifling the discussions. our great nation was founded on speaking our minds. families are voicing their concerns because they feel like they are not being heard in washington. i'm here to tell you that your voices are coming through and it is essential for you to be involved in this issue. >> if you want to know more about the health care debate and how reforms could affect you, check out the special health care in america website on cnn.com. you can get the very latest by going to cnn.com/health care. >>> the first steps in drew peterson's murder trial are getting underway. the judge said he's presuming the trial won't be moved, so he had hundreds of potential jurors fill out questionnaires. peterson says he'll do whatever it takes. >> if we can't pick a fair jury, then the government's job is to find a place where we can find an impartial jury. >> so far, no trial date has been set yet. peterson, you may recall, is the former police officer who was charged with

device or which quote, relates to the safety or effectiveness of the device, unquote. this provision was common sense, given the rigorous and costly nature of the fda approval process, it was in the best interests of all shareholders, excuse me, stake holders, including patients and consumers, that the states be prevented from supplanting this system with their own regimes. as we're all aware in last year's regal versus medtronic decision that my distinguished friend has mentioned, the supreme court held that this explicit preemption provision also applied to tort claims filed pursuant to state common law. this is not a surprise move by the court. it was an 8-1 decision that affirmed the position taken by the overwhelming majority of the circuit courts. yet i have to say the personal injury lawyers and their allies in congress have painted this decision as an unexpected change in the law in order to advance their pre-existing agenda to weaken federal preemption. the result of this effort is the medical device safety act. the legislation we're discussing today would alt

unquote. she said that judges may in their decisions develop novel approaches and legal frame works that push the law in new directions. judge sotomayor's speech and article presents something of a perfect judicial storm where her views of judging meet her views of the law. combined partiality and subject activity with uncertainty and instability in the law and the result is an activist judicial philosophy that i cannot support and that the american people reject. my democratic colleagues will no doubt quickly say that judge sotomayor's do not reflect that judicial philosophy. but, remember, that appeals court judges are bound by supreme court precedent. on the supreme court justice sotomayor will help fashion the precedence that -- that today bind judge sotomayor. that makes other views expressed, i might add, while she has been a sitting judge, much morrell vant to her -- much more relevant to her position on the supreme court than the appeals court. nonetheless sotomayor has made many troub

, direct actions, and quote, unquote, black block activities.glenn: first of all, america, you have to understand, it is not right or left or right or left or black and white. it is anarchists, people who don't like our government in any way shape or form on both sides, the extremes are the real danger here. pat, you are a liberal. you worked for carter. i said in 2004, i warned the democrats when they put michael moore in that box next to jimmy carter, i said you don't understand this guy is a radical socialist marxist, and he is -- he and people like him are using you, not the other way around. >> he has his own agenda, and one of, by the way, is not the truth, which is always the problem with michael moore. what you are saying is this -- most of the country doesn't know there are fringes on both sides. by the way, we don't have a continuum from left to right. we have a circle. when it meets at the back, it is totalitarianism. fascist and communism meets at the back. you have people who are a little crazy and what happens is when you overheat

unquote. the factor is not accusing anyone of anything. but we are just reporting what we believe is true. but if any american company did send material to corezing a major iranian partner they must be investigated. now with some analysis bill ail dailey former fbi investigator who looked into a number of terror bombings. this is a very tough thing to crack. we don't know if it's classified or not but the odds are it is, an investigation like. this an investigation like, this bill, would be classified. before we start into discussion, let me say the fbi is doing a fantastic job. exemplary job over in iran. i mean. bill: in iraq. not many people know there is a big fbi bureau in the green zone in baghdad? >> the fbi has an office in the u.s. embassy. and they have conducted investigations. the past four or five years now. extense extensive investigations into things such as roadside bombings, gathering intelligence from people suspected of being involved in terrorist operations. bill: let's stay on the roadside bombs now. the information th

practitioners of a secular values called quote-unquote personal autonomy. the netherlands was the first country to legalize the right to die known as u euthanasia. and dutch has same sex marriage soft drugs, prostitution, and coffee shops that serve hashish. question, are americans destined to take our values cues from the dutch. well jew deyo christian be pushed aside for personal autonomy. is the jesus of bethlehem destined to be side lined by the doctrine and practice of personal autonomy. are we all going dutch? >> we'll ask these experts. paul sar bin, and steven plo ploerow. rabin, and steven ploerow. ploerow. >> plott row. announcer: if. for such a small word, it packs a wallop. if i live to 100. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe "if" should never hold you back. "if" should be managed with coverage that builds on what you already have. together, we can create a personal safety net - a launching pad for all those brilliant "ifs" in the middle of life. call on our expertise and get guarantees for the

we have something called "the center for talent development" and you have to be tested to be quote-unquotegifted to enter this little program in the suer, and they have kids from 4th or 5th gra up through high school and once the summer hi, the campus is replete with young people. and, hundreds of young people that are on there, you can counted on one hand how many african-american or latino students that you ever see i that program, but@ the kids who are in that program have a sense of what is college like -- college life like, what does it require to be able to get admission into it and once we make or schools into better places for our kids, which i would argue is one of the gravest political challenges that we have as a communities, in terms of responsibility that we take to allow them to continue to do what they do with our young people, then -- i don't think the issue of them learning to speak, another variety of english, is a huge matter at all. and i assume somewhere along the line we'll have some discussions, about the educational implications, of teaching from the strength that k

remember, john kerry quote unquote lied about his war record. we have to go into iraq because saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction, obama wants to kill the old people. all these are absolutely irrational, they're horrendous lies. i think the best that we can do is one-on-one explain to working families all over this country that if we do not get our act together in terms of health care, if we don't join the rest of the world in guaranteeing health care to all people, if we don't control costs, it will be devastating not only to people in an individual way, but it'll be devastating to the economy of our country. but bottom line is, i think we do have to cut bait, we have to say to the republicans you want to be the party of obstructionism, we're going to go forward and we're going to move of health care for all. >> should the majority of americans who want this health care reform hold out hope that democrats have sort of briar patched republicans into extremism here? or this is all political theater to set up real reform coming out of t

police say this woman, quote unquote is suspected of shoplifting a $2,000 gown. it may not be what she seems. police aren't sure she is a woman at all. paul wagner has more on the unusual case. >> reporter: the investigating detective things the well dressed shoplifter is a man. other officers that viewed the same footage aren't sure. whoever the suspect is, he, she was savvy enough and strong enough to pull apart a security device attached to a $2,400 dress. dressed in a miniskirt and sandals, the suspect walked into saks fifth avenue, wondered to an area of the store where there were no employees and lifted an expensive knit dress off the rack. with the security device disabled, the suspect made for the door where the person was stopped by a loss prevention officer. as the two were talking, the officer was disstractd by another person leaving the store. that's when the suspect pulled a can of pepper spray and unleashed a stream of the liquid in his face. montgomery police detectives say he is fairly certain he is looking -- dealing with a man. >> you look at th

bill sent out a letter to chairman of the health insurance companies asking and requesting, quote/unquote, information about compensation levels of all those making over $500,000. they wanted the compensation level, the salary, bonuses, stock options, off jam pus retreats and such. this is wrong sort of intimidation. when they did it to the banking industry, the argument is they were taking taxpayer money through tarp and therefore we had an obligation to oversee that the money was well spent. this industry has taken no such money. pistol whiting them to come around and support the bill. >> not just the insurance industry beat up by the administration, but ordinary americans who oppose their the plan. the town hall meetings where conservatives are showing up, voicing thar opposition and labelled as un-american. disruptive. when liberal groups like acorn or moveon.org protest everything that george bush did, it was grassroots democracy. when conservatives do the same thing they are labelled un-american. >> where the republicans in this? the debate is chaotic. within the democratic party. >

pose all the time is what do you determine is cheap and how do you determine something is, quote unquote the aegis value fund we look at companies cheap on assets. so we're looking for sort of unlevered discount to book va e value, kind of looking at what you have minus what you owe and when we can buy that cheaply in the market that's when we get interested. >> good lornlg, what's your chief determinant? >> well, after a 50% rally it gets much tougher to find real value stocks. i think it takes in this environment where we've gone up so much a willingness to kind of put on several different value hats in order to find some names. >> give me an example of what you would have to do. what are some of the different hats? is p/e one of the main components that you would value in? and if so what else? >> p/e is certainly one. also yield. one way to look at p/e can be as opposed to just nominally speaking is it a low p/e ratio but in looking for names where the p/e ratio maybe is lower than where it's historically been. this is pretty easily available. and if something is trading at 15 or 16 t

so, even on substantive matters, we have a quote-unquote opposition party that has now become the ruling party, and, ruling with an abundant majority and they still can't take brave actions against corporate interests in washington, d.c. i would argue that the system has not changed at all, because we still have campaign finance problems. both locally here, which we didn't fix, and, nationally, and we have our politicians marinating in corporate campaign ntribution and, they do not have an interest, ultimately, at the end of the day to cut off their funding andhe reason why is because we have systemic problems. not only do we not have federal financing or state financing, like some states do, but we have awinner-take-all system. and when you have a winner take all system what you have is almost an incumbent protection going on and on and on. 9 -- in a where between 95%, 98% of our people in congress are returned. why haven't we had a significant overturn in our congressional levels? because of redistricting. if you te a look, if you ask yourself the question of why do we have these peopl

. >> the white house says the trip was a quote unquote solely private mission.described by white house press secretary robert gibbs. but ex-president clinton says the white house asked him to iothe mission. "i happy that r happafthat aft with their love. es their families, vice pridgoenndt ae rethe itwh house asked that itundertake this humanitarian mission, i agreed." and this makes it more official. national security advisor james jones from his office in the west wing asked former president clinton to north kore question. why was bill clinton chosen for this mission and did the white house authorize it in advance? pat bu cannen? >> bill clinton was chosen because kim ill jock demanded bill clinton come to pyongyang and the white house authorized it to get those people back. bubba is back, john. he gets a great success. it's wonderful that it's home but the real winner is kim jong- il. he demanded who it come over after firing missiles at us, saying the korean arm miss stis is all kaput and done all of the other things. and he gets bubba there. what does he do

quote unquote. his blog, and "youtube" video surfaced both talking about struggle to be detached emotionally. sadini walked into a l.a. fitness in pittsburg and opened fire. he killed three and injured nine before turning the gun on himself and killing himself. >> history made on capitol hill earlier today. sonia sotomayor is confirmed by the u.s. senate becoming the nation's first hispanic woman supreme court judge. confirmed 68 to 31 with over on we diding support from democrats and some republicans. >> cash-for-clunkers program appears to be running through labor day now. senate expected to approve $2 billion for the plan that gives rebates up to $4500 to people trading in their wrecks. the house already approved its version of the funding without the money. cash-for-clunkers probably would have gone broke tomorrow. >> how is the weather outlook shaping up for tomorrow? of course our weekend? vytas reid joins us with the sky watch forecast. >> shaping up to be a nice weekend. temperatures increas

the attorney general was informed the waterboard had been used 119 times on a single individual, unquote. in congressional testimony last year, ashcroft says waterboarding was rarely used. >> my understanding is it's been done three times. >> reporter: the cia has long sus suspended the harshest techniques. cia director leon panetta said, this agency made no excuses for behavior, however rare, on the guidelines on terrorism. they also took the cia out of the terrorism business, by creating a new unit that report to the fbi. >>> lawmakers want libyan leader that he is not welcome in new york. he will address the u.n. next month. outrage over the visit intensified last week when libya gave a hero's welcome to the only man convicted in the 1988 pan am bombing. he was released by scotland because he is dying of cancer. >>> a symbol of rebirth has come full-circle at ground zero. it was the last beam standing after the twin towers fell, seen as a saeb of defiance in the face of terror. after more than seven years in storage, the 58-ton beam was taken back to the world trade center site. it wi

don't have enough planes and if you don't have planes you will have, quote, a very upset speaker, unquote. and that would mean speaker nancy pelosi. so i think, that congress -- >> jamie: interesting -- they only asked for one additional plane and john, definitely a controversy there, and thanks for talking to us about it and i'll continue to read your reporting on it as well. good to see you today. >> thank you. >> jamie: secretary of state hillary clinton met with south african president jake con zuma earlier as part of an effort to improve relations with the country and the two leaders meeting in the port city of durbin, a day after clinton praised an improvement in relations between the u.s. and south africa and she leaves tomorrow for angola. >> what a sight earlier this week that's two american journalists, laura ling and euna lee captured along the north korean border with china and sentenced to years of hard labor in one of kim jong-il's gulags were safely returned home to their joyous families in los angeles and the happy homecoming, the result of rock star diplomacy by none othe

i know on the quote, low quality, unquote, fannie, freddie, citi are definitely lo quality. if they are not going out the business and the government won't let them and that maneuver balance sheets such that they show growth, stocks under $4 in the case of city are likely to do well. i don't think you jump in with great enthusiasm. you recognize that the stocks go up as long as they don't go out of business. >> that are is the next trade. online travel agency, up by about 12% better than expected results. the profit increase and stronger booking as demand for travel was stronger in this economic recession. what are you seeing? it seems like we won't see the same with expedia. >> i think that only trends higher. i am comfortable with finding higher levels.. you are still seeing buying and it is a summer and i understand that, but as we come out in the third and fourth quarter, that's only going to be stronger. >> one quick thing, with consumer as the fear of job loss abates, you don't have the job creation, but the fear of job loss, people spend the incomes they have based on

. >> i can sit up to the person who is quote, unquote normal. >> in many respects made such an extraordinary difference in the lives of so many people around the world. >> i don't know where i would have been. >> and someone that i was asking means a lot. >> and not just those special athletes eunice changed in much of the world the way people with disabilities are treated. lesli. >> thanks for that, gary. we got a bit of a break from the very oppressive heat of monday, but there's no mistaking it, the dog days of summer are here. >> 97 yesterday. about 93 today. so some t d records today. let'stt artht temperatures. some areas aw beevlo 90at w be fr ic ederick. look ated 87in athewincst. in culperwiin the still in the 90s. let's 90s. let's mi. dihu tyis th iss.midityhu this is diu . ke account to. townis 94 94isdo infeelit in inst fr fredericksburg. this is why we say days we don'set rdrecoeds, exercise rei the morning. for tonight, partly cloudy, muggy, a few thunderstorms are possible. lows, upper 60s in the burgs. we'll come back and with we have a couple big storms on doppler. lesli. >>

what is exciting with your lover will eventually become quote, unquote the same old thing. if you commit adultery assume you will be caught and be prepared to accept the consequences. you say it is impossible to conceal an adulterous relationship. >> i think everyone gets caught. >> you go on to talk about the role of the computer. computer are as wonderful they are, are dangerous. if you consider illicit relationship the computer is the wrong means by which to pursue it. store bought calling cards is far more preferable to land line or cell phone calls. phone records are easily traceable. viewing internet pornography. thinking about doing something, you might be on investigative candid camera. you say all files, all computers and cell phones. cell phone records are easy to obtain. >> easy. >> you have private investigators who have been in your employ. >> of course. you have to send a subpoena or verizon or t. mobile and get every phone call you ever made or received. >> you serve a subpoena upon the custodian of records. ii will use verizon as an exampe and i get all of j

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just wait until the actual, quote, unquote, stimulus which is nothing more than obviously a transfer of the taxpayers' money to people who didn't pay taxes. wait until that ends. now you want to see astroturf. that's going to be astroturf that's being mowed by a steamroller. you know, we need investment capital to come back into the market to make real investments and build real businesses. until that happens, we're not recovering. >> pat, you can argue that i think for sure for the auto sales, but for the home sales, there has been a significant decline of prices -- in prices. the market is kind of working here, isn't it? >> i think it's important to separate the two. as we have said, the cash for clunkers thing is all that's driving auto demand right now. no question about that. certainly the tax rebates are helping home demand. affordability is at its best level in a decade or more. a lot of what's getting home sales going is prices simply coming down to market-clearing levels, a level at which a rational buyer will come in and say i can make money renting this out or holding unti

it's over, unquote. having done this for 35 years, i have fallen into a couple of indicators that characteristically have done a very good job. he says those indicators are showing an end to this recession. the biggest sign gartman looks at is a steady spike downward of weekly jobless claims. >>> the film industry is mourning the loss of popular writer/director john hughes, who died from an apparent heart attack in manhattan. john hughes died suddenly today. he brought us some of the most popular movies of the '80s and '90s. ♪ well shake it up baby now >> reporter: movies that defined a generation. >> bueller? bueller? >> does barry manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? >> what's happening, hot stuff? ♪ >> reporter: john hughes was 59. ♪ >> ah, we remember them well. it makes me want to go rent some of the movies. my kids still watch "home alone." they love it. >> a great movie. great weather today after the rain got out. it's a beautiful evening out there. and again, the moon is right next to the pla

but those are the primary quote/unquote sore spots. >> reporter: cellulite forms when skin loses itsity and large fat cells form and present dimplessability according to dr. howard brooks, thin or heavy, any woman can develop it. >> it doesn't matter if that woman is black, white, asian, if she eats rights and dozen everything right, cellulite can still develop, unfortunately. >> reporter: there are a few things you can do. quit smoking. lighting up damages connective tissues that causes wrinkling. watch your weight and exercise the legislation and buttocks that. >> can firm up the skin and it decreases the appearance of cellulite. it's still there, but it decreases the appearance. >> reporter: because it's mostly genetic, brooks confess there's isn't much you can do to get rid of it. although there are lasers and injections that attack those nasty dimples, they're expensive and temporary. for now beverly hunt has decided to try laser and deep massage therapy to get rid of her secret. for today's health minute, i'm melissa long. >>> a traffic stop in minneapolis have some questioning

tools of foreign governments, and here you have a case of americans slipping across the border, quote-unquote, so as i say, as part of the larger issue, that we can see in the trial, going on in tehran, now, i think we need to be very worried about these three americans. >> eric: that is troubling, and, certainly, americans should be worried, when you are that close and cross the border and they are having what is called a show trial and 100 opposition leaders put on trial and they are talking about possible execution and now three americans are added to the mix and what should the obama administration or can they do to try to get them out. >> apparently, according to press reports we have asked our protecting powers, called, the swiss embassy in tehran to look into this and try and get access to the americans and see what we can do to get them out, i think as we have seen, recently, from the sybari situation, and the merge journalist who was held there, really the case of iran going all the way to the 1979 embassy seizure, when hostages, american hostages were held for over 400 days, this re

and now, the white house is pitching into stop all of the quote-unquote misinformation, but, at what expense? correspond molly henneberg reports. >> reporter: it's difficult, the white house says, on its blog, at white house.gov to get a handle on quote, rumors an -- information about health care reform and the white house makes this request. quote, since we can't keep track of all of them here at the white house, we're asking for your help. if you get an e-mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov and conservatives in congress and on the radio, jumped all over that. saying the white house is acting orwellian. >> if you get an e-mail from your neighbor and doesn't sound right, send it to the white house, people across america are going t say, is it 1984? what is happening here, is big brother watching. >> they are looking for tattle tails, they are looking for snitchs. their looking for informant. >> texas republican senator jon cornyn sent alert to president obama saying, quote, i am not aware of any precedent for

senate democrats have vowed to use, quote, any legislative means necessary, unquote, to win on healthcare, including sidestepping the senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold with an arcane and politically iske maneuver called eck council yation, that would allow them to pass it with 51 votes, an idea some house democrats applaud. >> if republicans don't want to cooperate and work with us, then we may have to go it alone and pass it with just democratic votes. >> democrat mike ross of arkansas told reportedders democrats should not pass any law without bipartisan support. emanuel rereed said democrats may have to start from scratch. >> there is a need to hit the reset button, because i don't think what we are screwing now is of any value -- what we are discussing now is of any value to the american public if we come up with a plan, it will increase the partisanship that is doing enormous damage to the nation. >> bottom line, democrats say they and the president need a better sales pitch. >> we have to do it better, a better job of selling what we're doing. we're not doing as good of a job, f

sotomayor's ruling was her own, unquote. i ask consent mr. taylor's column appears in the record following my remarks. >> without objection. >> i thank the chair. in addition claiming her decision in ricci was grounded the second circuit was supreme court precedent, judge sotomayor offered at the hearing that the sixth circuit had addressed a similar issue in the same way. i can only assume that she did so to imply that if the sixth circuit independently came to the same conclusion in a parallel case then it would be difficult to say that judge sotomayor's decision in ricci as controversy all. well, i would first note that and oakley versus the city of memphis, the sixth circuit actually analyzed case, applied the law to the facts, and issued a real opinion. i wish judge sotomayor had done that in her case. it was an important case, a lot of lives depended on it. people worked hard to pass that test. more important judge sotomayor failed to mention that the sixth circuit case was issued three months after hers, and in fact relied upon her dec

in fact, he got a new world record in spite wearing a "quote, unquote, inferior swimsuit.after ward, he said it was motivation. >> the only thing that does for me is fire me up. i have always welcomed those in the past and in the present and future. it does nothing but motivate me, and i love it. >> swimmers have to learn around the world, do not anger michael phelps. he will only beat you worse. it is just that simple. that's a look at sports. i'm adrian gilliam. i'll see you back here -- i'm pete gilbert. see you back here tonight at 6:00. >> h1n1 vaccine in a matter of weeks. who will be the first to get it? plus our health expert weighs in at 7: 18. >> plus ideas on how to keep the little ones busy. >> and at 7:42 a legal expert weighs in on city hall leaders. they have alzheimer's and heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and they've heard that biomedical research offers hope -- that it could control, maybe even cure, their disease. senator barbara mikulski understands the importance of innovative biomedical research for patients, their families, and our economy here in

and it will get a lot of attention if in fact the white house is willing to move away from quote-unquote in favor of what they are calling health insurance cooperatives and people would be able to buy into and we'll get more information about this throughout the morning and bring it. >> jamie: chris wallace way ahead of secretary sebelius's comments you'll hear, a couple of hours ago, our own chris walls loss put the public option question to senator conrad. >> would the president be better off taking the public option off the table right now? >> look, the fact of the matter is, there are not the votes in the u.s. senate for the public option. there never have been and so, to continue to chase that rabbit, i think is just a wasted effort. >> jamie: joining me now, the host of "fox news sunday," chris wallace and the white house keeps raising questions on why people are coming to the town halls and they are looking for answers and the policies and the programs potentially keep getting changed and look at the shift just this morning. >> chris: that is exactly right. and, in fact, during ou

i am disappointed about the atechts of americans saying quote un-american, unquote.ould not be stifling the discussions. there's nothing un-american about disagreements. our great nation was founded on speaking our minds. families are voicing concerns because they feel they are not being heard in washington. your voices are coming through and it is essential for all of you to be involved in this issue. >>> if you want to know more about the health care debate and how it could affect you, check out cnn.com. you can get the latest from town hall debates, fast checks, i reports. go to cnn.com/healthcare. >>> drew peterson's murder trial is getting under way. the judge heard a change of events. he's presoourming the trial won't be moved. peterson's attorney is going to do what it takes to make sure an unbiased jury listens to the case. >> if we can't find a fair jury, they will have to go out and do whatever work needs to be done to do that. >> no trial date has been set, yet. peterson is the former police officer charged with murder in the death of his third wife and a

. -- part of this quote, unquote "disinformation." neil: asking them to finish this information out. they are snitches. what do you make of that? >> well, i have covered washington, neil, since 1990, and, obviously, technology has changed, which means gathering information and distributing informational has become much more electronically based, but i've never seen a white house solicit information from americans about what they think is disinformation or wrong information proffered by other americans. i mean, i just cannot ever seen that. there is the level of on ease the white house has about where it is on the fact arguments -- the level of unease. in the polling data, and it is not just cherry picking, it shows increasing anxiety in the public mind about the implications of health-care reform. that is what happens in the debate. the white house once to counteract what it calls "disinformation." -- the white house wants to do that. so to ask other americans to sort of bring them things that they think are disinformation that they h

you have called the current efforts of reconciliation a joke, quote, unquote. so what's wrong with the way we are trying to talk to the taliban now, and how would do it differently? >> the current administration is losing the people, and because of the dissatisfaction of the people towards the government, the current administration is losing the people. and that trend has to reverse before anything else could happen. next to that, there are thousands and thousands of people who have joined the ranks of insurgency because of other issues rather than taking the taliban through the process. there are thousands of people which have joined the insurgency because of other reasons. by taking those reasons out, you can take a further step towards national reconciliation. >> mr. abdullah, you have worked with the president karzai. you were the first foreign minister. what do you think of him as a leader? what are the flaws ma tthat leau to feel you must challenge him in this election? >> our hopes were he would be a fair leader and take action in the beginning where the

you can tell by looking at the roads, that quote unquote summer is summer. you really can.breakment we are coming right back. >> now weather, complete forecast and first warning of severe weather. >> low 60s with 67% humidity, which is helping among other factors to keep that shower activity we showed you at bay from the metro. and over the bay. 30.10 is the barometer. look at temperatures again, the story of the morning. 57, 72 ocean city, 66 easton, and down torn, now 57 west minister. 64 rock hall, 62 columbia, 66 degrees over on island. it is high pressure dominating our weather for a multiday run are. and you can see where it is southern, its southern area of domination if you will is operatety much just -- pretty much just keeping rain on this diagonal, southern area of domination. let's wrap that and send it to a psychiatrist to think about. here is the high pressure, courtesy of the high, into the mid atlantic. it will keep sunny, haze and humidity completely out of our neighborhood. and what we are look at are temperatures below and only getting to normal once we g

with all due respect, not everyone adheres to what catholic bishops believe, unquote.s compromise is unacceptable to republicans. critics call it a sham and say that government would still be subsidizing abortions. government insurance would cover abortion. should it? go to cnn.com sla/caffertyfile. we haven't heard a lot but we will. >> you are right. >>> u.s. protectionism versus protecting u.s. troops. there is a war over fire-resistant uniform for american forces and new demands to buy american. could troops be at risk. cnn investigates broken government. >>> bill clinton breaking his silence. wait until you hear what he is saying about his mission to north korea and what he won't say. >>> regarding that pennsylvania gym nightmare, cnn goes to great lengths to obtain a piece of video. it shows the gunman who talked of hating women in a dating seminar teaching himself how to find a woman. i've been growing algae for 35 years. most people try to get rid of algae, and we're trying to grow it. the algae are very beautiful. they come in blue or red, golden, green. algae

but word now that officials are quote/unquote actively considering this option. kiran?aine, if the white house doesn't pull the trigger soon, when might we see this happen? >> it will be a critical time coming up here, mid september is what we're looking at. that's when members of congress will be back in town. that will be decision time. right now, it's basically let's make a deal time. and if, of course, republicans do come onboard, that, obviously, will change the equation here. but mid september is going to be the critical time when we'll see whether or not the white house -- the democrats will decide to pull the trigger. kiran? >> we'll see what the political fallout is today from talking about it which as we heard from bill bennett a little earlier, this is something that could ignite the fireworks again. elaine, thanks so much. >>> a little while ago, we spoke with bill bennett about what the republicans have been saying about health care reform during the month of august. all of the town hall meetings and elsewhere. the democrats have said that the republicans h

hillary clinton's snap quote, my husband is not secretary of state, i am, unquote. made the comment at a townhall forum in the congo, somewhere in italy. bill clinton said leave me alone, i'm having sex. i new settled says that women are three times as likely to under ur rate their boss' opinions on the jock performance, but the survey didn't lack confidence, they rated their own performance highly. what does this mean? i have no idea. and frankly, i know you're not listening to me, and this is a really stupid story. >>> michael jackson fans will get to see him one last time. a judge approving the deal for jackson's rehearsals for the planned london come back concerts. i can hardly wait. i never know which one of those is right. and a stupid wacky day on wall street. the do you down 32 and the nasdaq off 8. and the s&p picking up hot chicks at a club. this is abnews, and now back to whatever you were doing that wasn't abnews. >> this next story owns a boat, it goes called the ss sassy boy. >> is the government spying on you? probably not. but it never hurts to ask.

reverend al sharpton according to joe jackson michael jacksons, quote, unquote, afraid.r comments? >> i think first of all, mr. jackson and mrs. jackson have said things that are very clear, i mean you just showed pictures. joe jackson used to walk with michael to court every day. all of this about them barring him, when i was at the house leading up to the funeral, he was there every day and mr. jackson was on the east coast last week. i spent some time with him and he said some of these things to me that he feels that they have got to keep digging deeper and deeper. let's not just stop at doctor, they want the truth and they don't want to stop until every contract, every insurance policy and everything has been examined and i support that. there are some of us that want to find out what is there or is not there without any fear. as far as michael being afraid, he expressed that to me, i do not know firsthand what michael's fear was. i know that michael from several years ago when came to me about his ca catalog always felt that there were forces trying to undermine him

over the weekend he, quote, confessed, unquote, saying western media helped cause the chaos after ahmadinejad's disputed election. it is a lie. he knows it's a lie, and the iranian government knows it's a lie. after all, it's a lie that they, those in power in iran, forced him to speak. that's what a show trial is all about. it's a phrase usually connected with josef stalin, the ruthless soviet dictator. he tried 50 odd men in mass trials for crimes against the state. sound familiar? in fact, the similarities between the soviet trials of 70 years ago and the iranian trials of today is striking. large rooms filled with row upon row upon row of men. at the front, full rows of the accused. many looking wary, downtrodden and many in the front former key government officials who have built a revolutionary regime, only now to see it put them on trial. when their time comes to take the stand, they confess saying whatever the regime wants them to do, hoping they'll be treated less harshly and one day they might be able to be free, hoping to see their families again. in the soviet case, those hopes were

you have called the current efforts of reconciliation a joke, quote, unquote. so what's wrong with the way we are trying to talk to the taliban now, and how would you do it differently? >> the current administration is losing the people, and because of the intent of the people, dissatisfaction of the people towards the government, the current administration is losing the people. and it is strengthening that insurgency. that trend has to reverse before anything else could happen. next to that, there are thousands and thousands of people who have joined the ranks of insurgency because of other grievances rather than taking the taliban to bring the state down through the process. there are thousands of people under that same brand, taliban, which have joined the insurgency because of other reasons. by taking those reasons out, you can take a further step towards national reconciliation. >> mr. abdullah, you have worked with the president karzai. you were his first foreign minister. what do you think of him as a leader? what are the flaws that obviously lead you to