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the one tt brouht the hous down -- then sell washiton was hilarious, but e cliof you imitating may, my about that all t time. i traled around the country, "tracey ullman, she nailed yu." >> i have seen you, "i am sorry, he is onhe campaign trail, he is not available tonight, but we ve one of the foundingembers of the o. --" he said that o night. that was the ory. tavis: it was funny. >> you come an early now. tavis: twice a night re in l.a. tavis: we are at disney coert hall and theun is shing. >> u would be in that sa hour. the is such a dichomy. i cann believe it! i am with tavis smiley! you are sounny. vis: i am justso glad that you are spoofing him now a not me. tais: calif. -- >> californi it has been so qick getting hereoday. the was nobody on the road. i amoving the recessio there wanobody on thereeway comi here. calmed right down. tavi i must confess,t really is ea getting into reaurants now. >> i n't have to worry about getting onto jets anymore. i just got back fromlondon, it is bithere. tavis: i laughed when i saw this somebody has been married to yo 25 years? god, who is th

we hear that elsewhere in washiton. the president is condering ging them perhs another two or three months. dthen they would go back to the united nations a push for different course of action. >> as to say, notuch has come fromhe approaches so far. the sittion in ian is complicated. is txpectation much more will come from the scks >> the speechhat hillary clinn gave today, she gave for a number of reason it sirected tohe washington elite. as f -- this was r washington policymakers. she has been injuredor the past nth. she brokeer elbow. thiss her coming back oo the scene. i do nothink it was designed to lay do specific licy markers. i think, s much the american domestic consption is designed to remind people she back, the oma administration has as stro policy vision. they ll leverage america's smart power, as they'd like to call it these days. they wish to ore up the obama ministration's foriegn policy at this. >> more top storie for you fm around the wld. french offials ar sing two people were killed in an plosion in

i went back to washiton, and on the train i w thinking -- there are so ny great inventions. the things i am interested in ar not new inventions. the train,ewspapers, utilities. theare all using thnology that is 100 years o. this is still basically in boilg water to turn turbis. how'd you g deeper in the utilit business and change it? >> i think you will see technologylayer role in chging the energy and enviroent space. to egg- to a degree, it has. this will happen in a couple of ys. one, cane make theusiness of generating andelling power mo efficient? in pticular, if it invols this, will it be more distbuted, it will ba real requirement for muchmproved networking, for command and control, billy. on the other han however t generation side is involved, nservation is goingo be important. i think computers provide a real opportunity now to change the pattern of consumption by making it more automatefor people, so they can take electives chces about being more conservative. thi that is one of the advances in computing and networking and thlow costf consumer electronics willake th

dana bate, "ghtly business report," washiton. >> jeff: wheit comes to the economy, the worstay be behind us. w numbers show the nation's gross mestic product fell 1% in the second quarte less than expected. but it'she first time since the greadepression that the economy has shrunk forour straight quarters. still, as scott gurvey repts, economists are cautiously optimistic about the seconhalf of the year. >> reporter: is not good, but it is a heck of a lot less b. this inow officially the worst recession sincthe great deprsion. but the decline in the secon quarter was le than expected and most economis look for positive gwth for the rest of the year. t consumer spending fell in the quarter and anony chan of j.p. morgachase warns that is poses a threat to the recovery. >> one of the ris certainly is that consumesentiment takes a deeper hit and people become little bit more neous, more pessimistic about the future and that starts to feed itlf and you t a negative feedback loop occring. my suscious is that right now with all the talk of green shoots that negative feedbac loop is nosomething

darren gersh, "nightly busins report", washiton. >> paul: the troubled asset reliefrogram or tarp that ben bernanke helped pass through congress ifacing new scrutiny. the spial inspector general for th$700 billion program says thearp has grown, evolving io 12 separate ograms at a cost of about $3 trillion. but as stephanie dhue report neil barsky and congressional lawmakers sathat evolution has credit ratings agencies come witut a lot of explation. >> reporte the treasury dertment is under fire for keeping secrets. specifically, hothe money the gornment provided the banks is bei spent. investigion and oversight committee chairman edolphus towns demanded actn. >> if trsury does not put this infoation up on its website, this committ will, and if trsury does not turn over this information voluntily, secretary geithner will be brought before the committeeo explain why not. >> reporter: treasury saysnce the banks reive the tarp money it's impossible to distingui it from other fus. special inector general neil rofsky did his own survey an found banks have used thmoney to do everything from p

and the isn't a sse washiton that there is y sort of -- any so of military invasion imminent anythingike that. so a lot o what's goi on in this dispute is really tryingo influenc is making orageous claims ming exaggerated claims try to infence the debate. and we're t, i believe oing to see oher countries clashi with the honduran military. doesn't appear to be e case. >> ifill: and one otherody talking -- king efforts to influence the debate apparently is theatholic church which h warned zelay to stay away? >> yes, the catholic church is extremely inflntial in this country. an church leaders ha ma very cle that ey believ mr. zelaya's return would be an inflammaty act that could provoke people to violence. and the church leaders made thatvery clear in a televised stement. and t church, the urn has in a sensaken sides in this dispute that has divided hon dureas -- onduras. and we' see how i plays out. >> ifill: and finally, mark, what the sense of the place today, especially after yestday's eves. doe it feel like it's under siege. does it feel asf things are about to turthe corner? or is

darren gersh, "nightly busins report," washiton. >>usie: house democrats unveiledoday their plan to revamp the hlth care system. it would creata government-run insurance option, d penalize businesses who don't off health insurce and individuals who refuse tbuy it. to pay for the orhaul, the bill wou cut medicare and medicaid, and raise taxes more than 5% ocouples earning more than a milliodollars a year. ngressman henry waxman says health carreform can't wait. >> we caot allow this issue to delayed. we cannot t it off again. we, quite frankly, cant go home for a recess unss the house and the sena both pass billto reform and restructure our health carsystem. >> susie: democrats still fa staunch opsition from republicans, w today called the proposed tax incases "onerousduring a recession. >> jeff: tomorro "street critique" guest paick o'hare goes bargain hunting amo the retailers. he's chief market anyst at briefing.com. >> susie: bernard madoffs spending the first night of e rest of his fe at butner federal ison near raleigh, north c

i am not sure they figureit out, eithe this is not a three-rin circus in washiton this summer, this is a 1ring circu we've got supreme court coirmation, health care, climate bill, we've t all this stuff on foreign policy. >> all right. senator al franken, if y delays, and soon-to-be former gov. sarah palin >> it would be apathetic to just hunker down and go with buflo. only dead fi go with the flow. >> alaska g. sarah palin decided the best way for bir to serve the state that e loves is to resign orffice. >> i cannot stand here as your goveor and allow the millis of dollars and all the time go waste so i and allthe title of goveor. >> in other words, you can take this job andhove it. befor wetart on sarah palin, whseems to inspire great devotion or bile in equal msure, let us look at the governor throh a different lens -- her uniqueness. you are in an airplane,t crass in a wildeess, you, nancy pelosi, and the goveor of alaska rvive. who would you ust more to build a fire to keep you warm, attract some game to be you and leave you back t civilization- nancy pelosi an sert -- or rah pali

>> we have most eligible low humidity spots in the country here in washiton june lie. what else would you expect in july. >>> in sports. that time of year. serena williams makes her d.c. debut with the wizards start things off right in las vegas. and we will show you president obama's first pitch at the all-star game.ll that makes a delicious, tender, perfect piece of steak. people: oh! it's the steak. enjoy quality selections from the butchers at giant. like petite-cut sirloin steak, just $2.99 a pound. this week only, at giant. fr h, fresh, fresh. really fresh! come into your local giant today for mouthwatering fruits and vegetables, all at prices you can handle. like blueberries, one-pint carton, 4 for $5.00. this week only, at giant. this week only, at giant. >>> vacationers at a long island beach were not expecting to see a 24-foot shark wash ashore. the dead shark attracted quite a crowd. wanting to take pictures of him. state workers think it may have died of illness. sharks are common in the waters off long island. they're not thought to be dangerous but they a

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. >> we conclude wi bradley aham, our "washiton post" ntagon corresponde talking about his book "by his own rule the ambition, successes and ultimate failures of donald rumsfeld." >> he was veryquick, whin hours after the attk, to focus on some kindf military action against ir. and even while planning proceeded too io afghanistan rufeld continued toargue thin the administration about wideng the fig at that point. going after terrorists or sponso of terrorism like iraq. >> rose: woodward a gram on washington next. caioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios inew york ty, this is charlie rose. >>ose: bob woodward joins me tonight from washingn. he's an associedtor for the "whington post," he's considered one of the pre-eminent investitive journalists of our time and certainly the most famou his investigatn into the watergat coverup with fellow "washington post" reporterarl bernstein earned h fame and the paper a pulitzer prize. he's since gone on to write numeus books about wasngton, including on the presidenc the supre court and the militar he recently accompanied natnal s

where the key uocks perfectly within a couple days we decided to lve prey darn good jobs at the washitonost and never looked back ande're having a blast. >> charlie: what was the mission? >> to dominate the coverage of washington p washingto shington politics and like espn. as pple had niche area we could have a bright future and we thought what if we put together t best reporters we knew and came from the work journal and shington post and johnas at the post years. we wked with everyone in washington and knew notll repoers were created ual and if we uld get ten or elve of the best and someone that worked with us attime mazine andben smith that werep and coming and expertise in prence and put them in one place and focus intensely on politics were pretty confident wcould move tohe front of the liand start to donate verage of washgton if we were focuss. >>harlie: it wasolitics not government or can you make that statemen >> i think to begin with it was mpaign because that wasthe huge story 2008. that's what i snt my time covering but people we coved on theampaign are now runghe cotry and t

you can see the cloud cover really from washiton to points sth and then out to the west as well. seen that and having ataierd thth, e bewthill more otocls udday but it is not going to be a cloudy day by any means. your forecast for today, partly -- at least partly sunny. i think in parts of the viewing area, you wil see partly to mostly sunny skies and temperatures will be cooler than normal for s this time of year. 82 in germantown. washington, 82. your humidity levels will be low so it will beerantho thryvey comfortable day. enjoy it. get outside. go to the zoo. have lunch outside. play with your kids when you get home. >> did you say go to the zoo? >> yeah. >> i will. got a nice horse back ride in yesterdayafternoon too. >> did you really? >> yes, really nice. >> great day to be out. >> let's check in with julie wright to find out what she has plans. >> i have my plan. i had cookies with ice cream cake about five minute ago. >> that has nothing to do with being outside and enjoying the weather. >> is cream cake on a hot summer day, it goes together. >> sitting inside in the st

"the washiton po" says cia director leon panett just learned of that ogram on ne 23rd. four mo after taking fice. and he ordered that program canceled immediately. i'm joined here live in studio by the democratic congressman of new jersey. he's also a member of the house intelligence committee. >> gd to be with ou, alex. >> i'm curious your opinion, look at the whole situation. what's the worstart about it >> well,ou said whether e cia has withhe information from congress. there's no question of wheer. it's just much. there's one recent example, and that's what has made the news this week, a letter that some others sent to t director of e cia, saying that what he said in may it is neitr the policy or thpractice of the a to thhold information or deef congress, we said now you know and we know that statement was wrong. we ask u to issue a correction. not because we want correction ore want to be let in on secret. it because we seed to establish the fact and the pattern withholding formation from congress. use the cia, for ears, has conducted a nber of activities. really,

. >> msnbcbc chief washiton correspondent norahah oonnell. ththanks for the updatete. tomorrowowhould interesting,g, interesting ieed. norah, thank you.. tamron? thee cntdownontinues for tonit's scheduled launch of f "endeavour." wee got some liveve picres up for you righ now off the insisi of t shuttttle. after two da of weaeaer lays, prett bad lightning storm over the wewekend, lightntning stkes over the weekend, scheduled too bst off at 6: eastern time a missioion to the iernational space statioion. wever, forecasters sayay thers 60% chance that the wather uld force a another delay th evening. we'll ep you up to date on it.t. >>> just ahead on n msnbc, wl thee obama ministration inveigate the cia because ofof enhanced interrogatition techniquques or tortur >>>lus jon and kate are lolooking r love, butou won't believe where. you don't want to mi this. no way, straight a aad on nbc. my doctor told me something i i ver knew. asasget older, our didies bome... less able tobsorcalcium. he recomnd citracal. it's a different kinin of calcium. calcium trtrate. with vitamin d

specifically, "the washiton post" reported this ekend that prosecutions could be targed at torture that wenteyond the guidance in those now repudiat rture mos. when the obama admtration released tse memos in april the presidt said at the time that no one acting in acrdance with their instructions should be prosecute but he pntedly didn't say anything abo people whose actions went beyond those structions. >> for those who carried out some of these operatnsithin thfour corners of legal opinions or guidance that had beenrovided from the white house, i do not thk it's propriate for them to be prosecuted. >> but anyone who acd outside those four corrs of those legal inns? meet the new attorney general. not at all the same as the lt attorney general joing us now is michael isakoff, "neek" investigivcorrespondent, "neweek" investigative reporter at msnbc, contributor thanks for joining us tonight. >> hi, rachel. >> who is potentially ing to be prosecuted here? >> potentily, cia contractors and eratives who conducted the interrogations in the fiel is important to understand at this prosecutoria

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journalis with exteive experience covering intelligence issues david ignatius is a columst for the "washiton post." andane mayer is a staff writer for t "new yorker." her latest book is "the da side: the inside storyf how the war on terror turned to a war on american ideals." elcome to you both. what do we know, jne, about o knew what, what the should haveknown and who didn't know? >> well i guess what we know ow is because the new director of the c.i.a. who told the committee what we know is tat former vice presidt cheney specifically wanted the committee not to be iefed on a particular program in the war on terror. and that's unusual. i mn we knew that he rely disliked theversight part of congress. he's always been against i but tout them ou on puose is,ou know, it's going to create an obvio huge fight, big problem. >> ifill: david, whato we know, if athing, about what that progr may have been? >> we don' know much. it appearshat this was a program seekinto gafter probably assassinate senior a qaeda leadership after eptember 11. but th details of that,he naturof the effor is unclear. there

. >> there was a "washiton post" it goes on to say, "white hoe press secretarsaid the presint did not ask sotomayor specificallabout abortion rights during their intervw." is that correct? >> yes, it's ablutely correct. i waasked no questio by anyone, including the psident, about my views on y specific legal issue. >> doou know then on what basis, if that's the case-and i cept your statement-- on what basis that white house offials would subsequently send a message thatbortion rights groupso not need to wor about how you might rule in a challenge to "r v. wade?"@ > no, sir, because you just have to ok at my record to knowhat, in the cases that i addressed on a issues, i follothe law. >> holman: nnsylvania democrat arlen specter, an abtion rights supporter, alsoaised the issue. he asked ifroe v. wade" has become a "super predent" not to be changed. >> how about the facthat the supremeourt of the united states has had 38 cases ter "roe v. de" where it could have reversed oe v. wade?" >> the hiory of a particular holding of t court and how the cot has dealt with it in subsequent cases wo

yo wrote in "the washiton post" about theconomy.ou saidhat nothing is- nothing may be me important to public assessments of president obama's leadership than the state ofhe economy. and at this int, there are political warning lights flashing. t's talk about those warning lights, because we see joe biden went to ohio today. he defended the stimulus pla the poll is showing independents e swinging away a they're beginning to lose se momentum, some altitudethere. is there a real warning sign, o are we jumpinghe gun re? >> well, i think 's a little bit of bh, frankly. it's certainly a warning sin. ohio isne state, t poll i ohio i onepoll. so you don't want to rd too much into one poll in one paicular place. but we knowthat ohioas been both an econoc and a polical bellwether over t years and the ze of the drop in suppo for the esident or in h apoval ratings issignificant er the lastwo months there. so in that sense, it is certainly mething that if yore sitting in the white house and u're one ofhe present's political adsers, you are going

and i kn that in recent years in washiton no one has cut anything. and as i sai a moment ag, spenng exploded uer presidenbush. but if you haveto, for exple, free spending, we've d those before, you cando it. now, of course, you wouldn't freeze every lt dime o your spending, u wouldn't necessarily freeze social security payments or medicare paents and so forth but if you wanted to freez spending across half the budget or 60% of the budget in anemergency, you can do it. now, tt saves a lot of money becae savings, you know, in this lexicon, rer to money you would otherwisepend that now you won't. in other words, spending always project to grow. so savings reflts spending less than u were going to spend, not necessarily cting the program from 10to 9 or 10 to 8. so remember that, it's important. sof you freezespending, you save mey because othwise it was going to grow. and so a freeze-- which we've rerted to from time to time in american htory-- is e way to address spendi. >> rose: okay. on t revenue side. wh kind of tax wld you proposin 2011. >> wel ther

. >> rose: the adminiration's attitude, as much you kw from all the people thatou talk to in washiton, how the ewed this and their attitude towards first russia, second medvedev and third putin. >> i think that the administration understands that russia is important. and i thinkhat the ver fact that they'realking about needing to reset this relationship and that this tr me ahead of a trip to china, for example,is heartening. and i tnk it shows that ty kn a lot of wk needs to be done. d i do this that if anybody can listen to all of... all sides and all of the dferent things tt hewillear and take it in and do somethi with it, it is pbably barack obama. will be good at listeningo putin. he's going to see gorbachev, too and believe me, he's goingo hearhe same thingrom gorbachev. i think everything stephens saying is right. we just have no... we have no idea in this country how many years russia has felt really abandoned by the unite states. i will ver forge just watching gorbachev's face years ago athe maa summit when he... bush senior told him what e big plans that the united states had

in an internal memo circuling widely in washiton and repoted today in the "new yo times", a u.s. my colonel advisi the iraqi military said iwas time to "declare victory and pull all u.s.orces out well ahead of the dember 2011 deadli. "the security of u.s forces are at rk" because of t new restrictions, he wrote, nd added, "remaining in iraq through the end odecember 2011 will yield ttle in the way of impring the abilities of the a spokeswoman for genel ray odierno,he senior u.s. coander in iraq, said the mem "reflects one person's persol view," not thaof the u.s. miliry. troop deaths are up 50% sie june-- roadsi bombs are the ggest killer. most of t deaths occurred in the east, and in the south w here the bulk of new u.s troops were depled this year. they're mounting a major offensive againsthe taliban in heand province. the top allied commder, general stanley mccystal elained recently why it was s deadly in the soh. >> you have a combinationof factors there, ther's the orinal home of the taliban, there's the narcoticproduction which mps a lot of money into thaand breeds corrupti

. >> lehrer: back in washiton today, seni officials of the obama administration summone top mtgage instryexecutives ta meeting and told them to ramp up their effos to lp more homeowners avoid foreclosure. tomoow night, in the last part of our forum with chrman bernanke,we'll talk about future regulation and consur protections. you can watch the entirevent right now our web site at wshour.pbs.org. a one-hour version"bernanke on the cord" will air on most pbs stations. check yr local listings for the time. and on paul solman'making sense web ge, see what former chairmen say about the pow of thfederal reserve. so there, lesson plans about monetary policy foteachers. >> lehr: next tonight: ritain's increasingly dangers mission in afghanistan. gwen ifill has that ory. >> ifill: a semn cortege made i way through a small town west of londonoday, carrying our more britisholdiers killed this month in afghanistan. crowds sptaneously gathered to pay trite, as they have been doing all month. july has been the bloodst month for the natcoalition there, 69 soldis and marines havdied, most in southern he

foronths, ads designed to catch the attenon of politicia and opinion makers have run in washiton, dc,w the battle is movin on cable and badcast tv out to legislors' home states and districts. i'm joined by evatracey, chief operatinofficer of campaign medianalysis group, a non- partisan group thatracks political and publicffairs advertisi. >> it seems likthere's not onlyore ads, but more ads oming from new entrants entering the argument. >> yes,every day we're seeing this battle escale. about $45 milliohas been spent so far. the averageaily spending right now is approacng almost $2 million. so it is rely stepping up right now. >> suarez: and terestingly, mentioning specific egislators. yeah, this is the second phase of this battle. thiss ads that are ging out now to these districts, coressional districts as ll as senate districts really trying to gin u pressure back in e home states forthese members of congre to get behind alth-care reform or stand against healthare reform. we're seeing that aspct of is lobing effort go into the states now. >> suarez: let's look a a ample of ads to inc

that's according to the "washiton post."ove comes after the ntsb said the system is inadequate and urged met tro he to add a continuous backup system. metro's general manager admits the system did not uncover faulty circuits -- or did, rather, uncover fault si circuits on four lines, however, he says it is not a widespread problem. those circuits are being fixed or replaced. >>> a warn to go anyone planning to take a morning jog. police in the district are asking you to be on alert after a woman was sexually assaulted while running in rock creek park. it happened around 7:00 yesterday morning in the area of bingham and beach drives. megan mcgraph joins us with more. >> reporter: well, good morning. on rock creek park is very popular with joggers and police say the victim here was out for her morning run at 7:00 yesterday morning. she was on a bike path in the park near beach drive -- the suspect kribed as a hispanic man in his 30s, 5'7" to 5'10". stocky build. black, wavy, shoulder length hair, was wearing a t-shirt and blue

the president has a piece, i believe, in "the washiton post" this morng which we'll be reading to you as ell. coming up on the show, senator chuck schumer ere be here. he's pdicting sonia sotomayor will be approved by a rge margin. al ranking reamian on the senate judiciary committee, senator jeff sessions. we'll talk to him about e hearings and abo sarah palin. plsenate majority whip dick durbin. we'll talk to him about that cia story. chuck dd live from the white house. and in just a few minutes, "the capehart.post's" jonathan us a look at the sties politico is woing on this morning. undefeateofessional boxer flo " "moy" mayweather has the fastest hands xing has ever seen. so i'veve come tohis ring to see who's faer... i'll be using g the 3g at&t laptopconnect c card. he won't. so i c broe the web faster,, email ness plans faster. all on the gogo. i'm bill kurtis ani'm faster than floyd maeaer. (annncncer) switch to ththe nati's fastest 3g3g netrkrk aand get t at&t lapptopconne card for free. in many newspaps all around e country, featured a picture from italy where it appears presi

marchas vamos hacer demostraciones en todo el pais no solamente aqui en el area metropolitana de washitoni no que lo vamos hacer en todo el pais como una respuesta a la forma como la administracion esta respondiendo a la reforma migratoria congresistas como charles schummer quieren que antes del debate migratorio se incluya un identificador electronico de huellas biometricas en el programa e verify para evitar nuevas olas de inmigracion ilegal por los atractivos empleos falso decir que eso va a solucionar el problema de gente entrando aqui ilegalmente para conseguir trabajo la gente venga aqui ...porue le vaya bien mal en su pais y le vales la pena arriesgar la vida para venir aqui y conseguir un trabajo el hecho de que hay un e- verify no va a solucionar eso como nueva redadas electronicas asi lo catalogan las organizaciones pro inmigrantes el programa de e verify quien aseguran que no es la mejor respuesta al problema migratorio esta nueva iniciativa no va asolucionar el problema porque l empleadores van a s