at-large councilmember vince orange $100. mayor vince gray $90,000, council chair kwame brown $33,000. just about every sitting member of the council, except for tommy wells has gotten a thompson-connected check. has thompson or any other contributed to your campaign in

vince has a disability, as well. he depends on me for many things, and i rely on him in different ways. we support each other. there's equality in the relationship. of course, vince and i both get comments about how sweet he is and how lucky i am to have him. my first response is, "no. he's lucky to have me, too." translator: many people don't really recognize the power of love... and don't realize the meaning of true friendship. we've let go of people who are not there for both of us and find friends who benefit us both. translator: technology is changing so rapidly, everything soon will be running on braille. the large-print format we have now is not practical for small portable devices, which, in turn, means i realize i'll need to transition to braille because everything is so small. handheld gps systems are just one example. gps would be wonderful while i'm traveling, but the printout would be in braille, and i would have to learn how to use braille. with changing technology, smaller devices like that don't have

i know that's vince's call. enormous respect for vince.ut i don't think it's on the verge of anything now. if anything, vince, it might continue operation twist. but an out-and-out balance sheet expansion is -- >> but that's our call. if they act in april, it will be to extend operation twist to be seen as fostering economic expansion. but then they've got may and june. >> kelly, you want to get in here and see which side of the fence you're on? >> i'm curious. vince, i think your outlook is predicated. as of last week, you guys had a 3 in 4 odds that the fed would do something. they want to front-run the political concerns later. but given the strengthening that we've seen in the economy, are you basically expecting still that we're going to get this growth rollover heading towards the middle of the year where the outlook starts to weaken again? how contingent is your forecast on that happening and what if it doesn't? >> it's all supposed to fit together. we do have growth softening, or in the words of the fmc minutes, momentum slowing. w

i was here at fort mchenry last week along with vince spays. they got the legislation through to make it happen. vince, good morning. >> good morning. >> this is going to be a huge deal. let's talk about the coins first. >> it is, it is. so you know this is the silver of the star-spangled commemorative pins. the national en-- coins. the national coin. it's a silver dollar, also in gold and actually that's what'sgoing to help fund all the commemorative activities and what a beautiful coin it is. >> it is. >> the guns on the lady liberty with the "star-spangled banner" and fort mchenry. she's ready to kick some british you know what you know what i'm saying in. >> i know exactly what you're saying. so let's talk about the week of june 13th. don and marty everybody listen up to this. what's going to be happening? >> tall ships and gray hulls. so i mean the war of 1812 is a maritime war. it started off that way. we're going to have sailing ships from around the world. the war of 1812 was also the golden age of the united states navy. think old insi

it's wednesday are you ready to rumble joining me on the panel for tonight's lone liberal rabble vince colony senior on line editor with the daily caller and laughlin mark a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation welcome back both of you and mark thanks yes right ok. i'll get to mitt romney. that may have eked out a win in michigan yesterday but two hundred fifty eight thousand dollars per day like this is mind boggling what we have what we've seen in america over the last fifty years is the transformation from what are your ideas what are your principles what are your positions to who's got the biggest billionaire you know now the stories out there to newt gingrich's billionaire shelley has decided you know he's he sat out vision going to now he's decided that he's going to throw another couple billion and so all of a sudden newt is back in the race in georgia and south carolina unlike those. the nixon kennedy entire presidential campaign twenty four million dollars was spent we're looking at maybe a billion or two billion dollars in this one it was almost a billion and a

and the morning delap assistant director of strategic communications at the heritage foundation and vince colonies senior online editor with the daily caller thanks for joining me tonight because mitt romney not on the most states the last bus that says that's not yes i may have we thought of the six states he won only his victories in idaho massachusetts and virginia were definitive and in virginia he was basically the only guy on the serious candidate obama still trying to figure out of gingrich's assert but in any case if you figures in santorum or on the ballot massachusetts was a solemn state in idaho has a disproportionate number of mormons compared to other states in the union so. you know with these kind of numbers and is this one convincing win and you know the couple states coming up looks like he's not going to win is romney going to be the the delegate for you guys his party. well look i mean you can look at the numbers and you can say is he underperforming in the number is look at the raw delegate count right and romney is well ahead in that raw delegate count but is there if

vince, what do you now know?week wikileaks dumped e-mails from a stratford corporation, a national security form, this week the sydney morning herald broke a story that said in one. e-mails vice president at stratfor was makie ing referenco a secret sealed indictment of julian assange and wikileaks. we never know these things but it's a very interesting piece of information that says essentially that a media organization like wikileaks can dump documents within which you can find out information that the government is holding secret about indicting you. it's kind of it interesting. >> it is. i feel like every time i walk into the wikileaks discussion i walk into a hall of mirrors for exactly that reason. >> i was actually going to mention your piece because i thought that was a very interesting takeaway. now i'm forced to move in a substantially less intellectual direction. what i learn sd that there is allegedly a cat who is running for u.s. senate in virginia. i'm really excited about this because, a, i'm a cat

at-large councilmember vince orange $100.yor vince gray $90,000, council chair kwame brown $33,000. just about every sitting member of the council, except for tommy wells has gotten a thompson-connected check. has thompson or any other contributed to your campaign in any way? >> he did a long time ago, i don't think recently. >> he's been involved in campaigns longer than i've been a politician. reporter: the district has been very good to thompson. his companies have made very millions of dollars in city contracts. the biggest a $320 million a year deal to provide medicare- managed care. that company had to pay the district $12 million after the city sued it for fraud. the company admitted to wrog and the settlement -- wrongdoing and the city contract was renewed. last night the fbi and irs raided thompson's northwest home and his d.c. chartered health plan offices. the feds say it's part of an ongoing investigation. no one else is saying much. did he contribute to your campaign? >> i hold my comment until we learn more abou

lot of my beloved little liberal rundle on the panel tonight vince colonnades of the daily caller and rockland market with the heritage foundation let's get back to it guys paul ryan has rolled out his budget and what a doozy he you know let's let's give a two and a half to three trillion dollar tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and cut that amount out of medicare and social security and medicaid and programs for the poor and programs the middle class and cut or pell grants i just you know roll back obama all those stuff i mean how do you think when that the republicans can ever win on a platform of eviscerating the middle class making it harder for his go to college but the big can win because. i mean when you look at what the alternative is it's essentially the status quo at least when it comes to entitlement reform keep medicare in place and keep social security and medicare of waste when the chief actuary says it could be insolvent as soon as twenty sixteen and that's something for a drug that's something that the treasury secretary timothy geitner acknowledged to the recen

trying to bring back to teaching of creationism in public schools here weigh in on all of these issues vince colony's senior online editor of the daily caller and laughlin mark a mark a investigative reporter at the heritage foundation and i guess i got right now you got the right ok. great to have you back thank you a ten percent cut oh that's the sort of that's the wrong one it will start with to begin with what happened last night mitt romney the richest man ever run for president on a major take it the number two behind ross perot minor ticket cleaned up last night illinois i mean since you are forty seven thirty five percent he outspent santorum seven to one in the state picked up forty one delegates so is he going to end and then last night of this morning one of his guys went on t.v. and was asked the question you guys know what's coming you know he says the question ok rowdies which are always conservative smack what's going to happen when he hits the general election and he said this. is there a concern that the pressure from santorum and gingrich might force the governor to tack so

you have got first warning ,,,,, >>> i am vince, good morning wjz, huesa. >> huesa is right, vince a great friend of the show and he will faithfully be america's park ranger during the celebration there. great guy. those are your currents there and in those areas. that is the case there. by sunday we clear it out. 60 is the high this day. the normal 58. partly sunny. overnight showers, 48, 10 baf the normal of 38. tomorrow slow clearing. i think we do see a nice sunset. 53 is the high, april fools day is sunny. monday, tuesday, and wednesday, 70, 70, sunny and 68 degrees, don, take it away. >> thank you, marty, let's go over to sharon at wjz traffic control. >> thank you. we have picked up another accident there causing a slight delay there. also watch for a new accident involving multiple vehicles, three in fact in edgewood on route 24. another accident still working in the city there. a fuel spill in highland there. there is a look at your speeds on the beltways, starting to see delays on the west side. there is your average speeds on 95 between 95 and the ft. mchenry tunnel. your

vince, the back story of how an opinion is written. these justices come to the bench.hey have done their research. and know what questions to ask. have they essentially decided in their own mind where they are headed and just testing the argument against what they have already decided? >> i think that's basically right. i think justice kennedy is less inclined to have a firm opinion before taking the bench for argument than some of the other justices. and argument does matter. tomorrow's argument will matter and then what happens is that on friday all nine of the justices will meet in the chief justice' private conference room. nobody else will be there. they will debate the case and cast a preliminary vote. and based on who is the senior most justice in the majority that justice will probably write the opinion. so we don't really know what is going to happen, and i think it's very hard to predict what is going to happen. and it's even possible after they have that meeting on friday that justice kennedy or some other justice could change his mind. >> you were there. if

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i mean in the homoerotic vince vaughn owen wilson wedding crashes -- do you get any of this?israel and iran are -- the united states and iran are slave slaves to think erect -- electoral cln dares right now. i'm working my ass off and all you do is respond to the dick joke? is that what this is. we built this whole thing. election -- he said erection. [ laughter ] so now here is my point: the united states and iran are slaves to their electoral calendars right now. (bleep) there you happy? [ laughter ] it's up to you guys not to get caught up and perhaps muffle the drums of war a little bit israel. what? you've got to be kidding me. netanyahu could be calling parliamentary elections as soon as this fall. so your overheated rhetoric is preelection shvandz waving, too? came aare one. dude, iran and israel are in an election year. here overhearing each other's stump speeches and freaking out. if we're not careful these two dickheads are going to drag noose a war. i did say dickhead i meant respected ally. i said proud and ancient culture with much to teach us. persian baklava. n

he's set to meet the coaches of the tennessee titans and the miami doll vince today.izona and denver are thought to have the inside track. time now for some more news. here's espn news. >>> good morning, cole wright here are your espn news update. the bulls host the knicks on monday night. tied at 38-38. derrick rose, the mvp, finishes. jeremy lin, he would channel his inner qb. to antony. two of his 21 on the night. knicks up two at the break. fourth quarter, niknicks down five. rose drives, rose hits. 32 and 7 monday. bull back in control by five. moments later, same score. noah with rose. it was hammer time. worth another look. mr. rose, angry over the noncalls the referees were giving him or not fiving him. five-point chicago game off the jump ball. from end to end, making it happen. bulls win, 104-99. the knicks have lost six straight. >>> blake griffin hosting the celtics out west. mi mickael pietrus. clippers trailing by a five spot. griffin, he never misses. clippers within a three-spot. k.g., the big ticket. ball don't lie. celtics, they win, 94-85. that will

at his press briefing today, wednesday, mayor vince gray said he was unaware of the allegations, but pleased with elerby's performance on the job. >> we know it is as -- he is a native washingtonen. he is a dedicated public servant, i'm really pleased that he agreed to come and do this. >> a wholehearted endorsement, even though some firefighters it embarrassed him by turning their backs on him over a schedule change he's promoting. so were the mayor, transition company, dismissed? >> those allegations to the best of my understanding have not been substantiated. >> had a public confirmation hearing. >> because it was a public hearing, there was opportunity for the public to come forward with any allegations. we heard nothing. >> so what happens now? note, elerby serves as the pleasure of the mayor. >> according to the mayor spokesman, asking for a personnel is not part of the process. most times, they are hand over. as for chief el elerby, we'll hear what he has to say. >> karen tolls is speaking out for the first time as she was caught speeding last month. at the time, she was let o

. >>> back now with the most famous pair of wedding crashers since vince vaughn and owen wilson. kw queen elizabeth and her husband phillip decided to pop in on some newlyweds. >> another city, another adoring crowd. but when you've been queen for 60 year, it's hard to pull a surprise. unless, of course, you drop by a couple's wedding, know their names, know where they're going on honeymoon and leave them stunned. >> i think it just hit us. oh, my god, it was like proper shock. it was only a few minutes, but to be so close up to somebody that you see so often on the tele. you know, it's diczar. >> john and francis canning were told a few weeks ago the queen would be at city hall as part of her jubilee tour of manchester. so they wrote to buckingham palace to see if she would like to share their day and received a polite decline. it was so shocking a fellow guesting noed something over. after wishing the newlyweds well, she and prince phillip left. >> i'll never forget it. it's special getting married but -- >> i never would have forgot it anyway, but everything was such a bonus.

quote one of the papers saying recently that china russia and is better than submitted a draft code of vince personal code of conduct for information security before the sixty's this united nations general assembly does that mean that the asio countries in general and the organization the shanghai organization in general advocates the introduction of a sort of a censorship to the internet worldwide and this is one of the goals that you are setting for yourself you know we are not speaking about censorship although as your member countries are in favor of the promotion of freedom of speech railing injuring the internet so. this is china's internal version we do not interfere but in one in the in two thousand and nine the still member states signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of the ensuring of information international information security and this is a clear new challenge for the c.e.o. and beyond and. now. the disagreement is into force last summer and the member states are. starting to build mechanism of corporation just a couple of days ago in b.g. the working group. conducte

mayor vince gray is responding to an exclusive report you saw right here earlier this week. we reported the gray's campaign staff hid contributions by buying large numbers and forging the names on those money orders to make them look like separate legal donations. sources say prosecutors have identified 200 to 300 money orders, all bought with illegal cash payments to the gray campaign. >> didn't know anything about it. >> i did not. >> when you hear about it, what does that say about what was going on? >> i think it goes back to the question about whether rules were broken or not. of course, i would never condone anybody breaking rules. >> we want to emphasize today once again, mayor gray did deny any knowledge of the wrong doing. he says he is cooperating with the federal investigation. >>> mitt romney's super tuesday showing perhaps not quite so super. the former massachusetts governor did win six of the states up for grabs. even though he was outspent by romney, santorum captured three states and came very close in the critical battleground of ohio. gingrich was back on

mayor vince gray took part in a ground breaking ceremony for the sky house project. the two commercial buildings are being transformed into two new luxury residential buildings. one bedroom and two bedroom apartments. the first phase of the project aught to be done by early 2014. >> cemeteries going high-tech. today the cemetery showed off it new geo spatial mapping technology. that's what it's using to manage operations now. that change comes as the paper records are being replaced. eventually, it will have detailed maps on its website and visitors will be able to zoom in on a single grave site and find out who is buried there. >>> a stunning development for the washington redskins tonight and the news is not good. days after trading for the second pick in the upcoming draft, the team learned that they will have much less to spend on free agency. you see, the nfl says the skins front loaded too many contracts in the uncapped 2010 season. those contracts given to albert haynesworth are the likely culprits. so, as a result, the redskins will lose $36 million in cap sp

mayor vince gray was joined by the dignitaries for a symbolic ground breaking ceremony on georgia avenue. that's in northwest. construction is actually well underway on the heights on georgia avenue. while this is a step forward, mayor gray says there's still a long way to go. >> when we looked at the number of families that are challenged economically at this stage to be able to find a place to live, not only in this city, but other cities as the demand for -- the demand for the opportunity to live in cities grows, the price of housing is being bid up, if you will. so we've got a great challenge ahead of us, but we're going work to try to make that happen. >> now mayor gray says he has just appointed a task force to find ways to build more affordable housing throughout the city. >>> did you know it's national school breakfast week? administrators say a good morning meal is key for students' health and achievement. maryland has more than 250,000 children eligible for school meals and about half of them participate in the breakfast program. montgomery county's superintendent is leading th

well, i'll talking with vince haley, the policy director for gingrich's campaign. and in a rare and stunning decision this story is getting so much attention. u.s. wildlife officials give a native american tribe permission to kill not one, but two bald eagles for religious purposes. we'll get the details on what's happening there plus, can we call it spring fever? it certainly feels like may in much of the country. record high temperatures. join the conversation on twitter. find my twitter page@tamron hall. ♪ i'm michael bazinet, president of creative digital imaging of bangor, maine. we have customers all over the united states. we rely on the postal service for everything that we do. the eastern maine processing facility is vital to our operation and our success. if we lose this processing facility we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. we would have to consider layoffs as a result of that. closure of this plant will affect all of us. ♪ the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired

these days, no one aagrees with nick, but does nick agree with vince? >> speaker, i think it's worth just dwelling on some of the -- some of the details that have been published this morning to unemployment statistics. because behind the headline figures, long-term unemployment actually came down in these quarterly figures and very, very importantly the number of new jobs created in the private sector out stripped the number of jobs left in the public sector. and under her government, under her government, the labor party sucked up to the city of london and over relied on jobs in the public sector. we are now having to remedy those mistakes and we are creating new jobs in the private sector. >> mr. speaker, he is come placent of unemployment under his power. they are making no difference in unemployment in the nhs, when it comes to the nhs, the deputy prime minister must think he is doing a stunning job. so can he explain why he failed to persuade the doctors, the nurses, the mid wives, the therapists and the patients? >> mr. speaker, the labor party us

. >>> back now with the most famous pair of wedding crashers since vince vaughn and owen wilson.ay queen elizabeth and prince phillip decided to pop in on a pair of newlyweds. >> reporter: another city, another adoring crowd, but when you've been queen for 60 years, it's hard to pull a surprise. unless of course you drop by a couple's wedding. know their names, know where they're going on honeymoon and leave them stunned. >> it was like proper shock. it was only a few minutes, but to be so closeup to someone you see so often on the tele. >> john and frances were told that the queen would be at the city hall. they invited her and they received a polite decline. and a fellow guest knocked something over. the queen inquired if they were okay, and then after wishing the newlyweds well, she and prince phillip left. >> it was a special to get married. >> but i never would have forgot it. it was such a bonus. >> reporter: no word whether the queen gave the couple a wedding present. perhaps they don't get better than this. >>> more than a year after the tsunami in devastated japan, a boa

today mayor vince gray met with six other residents to talk about building a training facility for the team in the city. and gray is hoping that the move will help raise some revenue for the old d.c. government. >>> and most important issue is, you know, how do we do something that we think will benefit the district of columbia for you and all ate wards, all 618,000 people. and that is exactly it, the way that we have attracted the government over the last 14 plus months. >> mayor gray's plan also includes other details like building a redskins hall of fame. >> there you go. >> i like that idea. >> but we'll go to hockey tonight. >> yeah, we go to hockey tonight. yes. the nhl season, quickly winding down. the caps sitting on the edge. could they pick up a much- needed win tonight against the fliers? >>> plus, the wizards, when they pick up back-to-back wins with their new teammates. sports is next. they make it look pretty easy. wizard back with their road trip they lead the entire game until now. they give the pacers with their first lead and a minute to go. what a floater! it goes in

terrible run with a narrow ninety six ninety four victory the suns had to come from behind the old vince carter have given dallas you could see forty three in the first half with a three pointer but early in the fourth phoenix pounds away back shannon brown slamming the boards down after a mystery poyser to give them a nineteen points to aids lead however does randy and with the recovery gets the war efforts come off but it didn't and the songs hung also went by two point margin . finally one of russia's biggest kickboxing prospects has not his ninth win in sent professional fights vladimir native sets all the old score against freshman they did the machine in moscow last night were the neon has the story. got it right there but twenty ten will keep boxing champion from france also known as the machine coming out to place one of the russia's biggest hopes in the business bludgeoning me this bike became the main demands of the increasingly popular bike night showdown in which the direction capital will six time there is the my no titles and stake but i want to make a vision here making th

at his press briefing wednesday, mayor vince gray said he was unaware of the allegations but he is pleasedith ellerbe's performance on the job. >> he knows the fire and ems system as well as anybody in the district of columbia. he is a native washingtonian. he is a dedicated public servant. he is great to work with and i'm really pleased that he agreed to come and do this. >> reporter: a wholehearted endorsement even though some firefighters publicly embarrassed ellerbe earlier this year. were the mayor, his transition committee or the d.c. council remiss in not properly vetting ellerbe to learn about the sexual harassment allegation. >> those allegations have not been substantiated. >> reporter: phil mendelsohn is chairman of the council judiciary committee. >> because it was a public hearing, there was opportunity for members of the public, the labor union representatives anybody else to come forward with any allegations. we heard nothing. >> reporter: so what happens now? >> mendelsohn notes kenneth ellerbe serves at the pleasure of the mayor. karen gray houston, fox 5 news. >> somethin

many shows once again actually it proves that we can use a colleague or figure number one and vince country and there he's potential is yet is yet to be zero so that he will be able to prove it through his. presidency through. well you got to much of the international attention and here in the country as well has been focused on. but what can you tell us about the other candidates. four other candidates are taking part in this election let's start with united you've gone off who's the head of the communist party he's currently standing just over seventeen percent votes it's not the first time that he's been running for the country's top job actually since the early nineties but he always managed to come second this time and united began of strongly criticised this election saying it was neither fair or transparent the same is being said by the unofficial opposition of war planning to hold mass rallies on monday now there's also. who is sort of the official opposition he's the head of the liberal democrat party and he's currently standing just over six percent six point two to be exact he's