wel the director of the fbi and both an open and ultimately classified hearing. the committee is in recess. >> thank you, madam chair. >> tomorrow morning's "washington journal" jeff bingaman looks at the health care oral arguments before the supreme court and senate debate on tax writeoffs for the oil and gas industries. and after that, georgia congressman, tom price on the republican 2013 budget proposal which the house will vote on tomorrow. washington journal live thursday at 7:00 a.m.te reagan was leavie hotel after delivering a speech. hinckley can't believe he is this close. 15 feet from the president. he shoots. six shots. first one hits jim brady the press secretary. he falls down. second, a d.c. police ofer the president's progress the he gets hit in the back. screams i'm hit. hi tohe the president is clear. wide open. hinckley has an effective range. he has done target practice. he can hit stationary targets. >> march 30, 1981, would be assassin, john hinckley fires six shots. this weekend, the raceo president. sunday, 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> follow c-s

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you'll see foursquare which is low case based andwitter as wel. a chance get out our message not only on air, but online and through social media as well. that's why it's important. we want to get outside of washington, d.c. and get into places that we don't normally do programming and make a commitment to getting outside the beltway to produce programming for all the c-span networks. >> throughout the weekends here on american history tv on c-span3 watch personal interviews about historic events on oral histories. our history bookshelf features some of the best-known history writers. revisit key figures, battles and events during the 150th anniversary of the civil war. visit college classroomtion across the country during lectures in history. and the presidency looks at the policies and legacies of past american presidents. view our complete schedule at cspan.org/history and sign up to have it e-mailed to you by pressing the c-span alert button. >> every weekend, american history tv brings you oral histories. first-person accounts of the events a

in this video, the staff sergeant could be seen putting his wel weapon on the ground, racing his hand in the air. we've also been told when specifically asked about the shooting, the staff sergeant said i did it. this is now a major international incident that secretary panetta and other u.s. officials are trying to contain. richard engel, nbc news, kabul. >> also this morning, the human rights crisis in sudan capturing attention on capitol hill thanks to an injection of star power from mr. george clooney. he testified at a senate foreign relations committee hearing. clooney says he secretly traveled across the border when suddenly the area come under rocket attack. >> when we got there, we found children filled with shrapnel including a 9-year-old boy with both of his hands blown off. we were met with three 300 millimeter rockets fired overhead and witnessed hundreds running to the hills to hide in caves for their safety. south sudan seceded from sued dan last july after more than two decades of fighting. the two countries have been at odds over oil. >>> president obama officially we

>> wel gravity never sleeps and it can cause terrible destruction. for example near black holes. so gravity certainly is benign for us. it's what is keeping us in our seats. but it can have very bad affects if you happen to slip at the edge of a precipice. >> what did it -- what did dark matter do that was constructive for the evolution of the universe, the evolution of the earth? the earth is about 5 billion years old? >> 4.6illion years old. >> when d man getere? >> it depends on how you define man. >> hom nids. >> hom nids about 4-5 million years ago. >> hominids have intelligence? >> we don't know for sure. all we have are skeletons. our type, about 150,000 years ago the ones we call homosapience. >> are we talking about fire? wheels? basic inventions or discoveries? >> well, our predecessors in the hominid lines used fire. they didn't apparently use fire all the time but we have evidence of fires associated within the settlements going back hundreds of thousands ever years so before our kind of people. >> nancy, are we the only planet where there are creatures with intellige

. >> i'm darren gersh with treasury secretary timot wel . we'll hear from him on tax reform and ways to keep jobs in the united states. >> tom: and are you looking forward to the weekend? lou heckler's been thinking about anticipation at work. it's "nightly business report" for friday, march 9. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. u.s. companies are hiring again. that's according to the government's latest snapshot of the job market. tom, the february market was even better than expected. susie, it also turned out there were more jobs added in december and january that first reported. it all adds up to even more jobs for the economy. let's take a look the numbers: the nation's unemployment rate held steady in february at 8.3%. employers added 227,000 news jobs to payrolls last month and additional 61,000 in december and january. >> susie: those strong numbers pushed up stocks a bit here on wall street:

i was honored to be on a delegation with former congressman wel man where we visited so i have seen the contrast between the totalitarian state of the dprk and to see the success of the republic of korea, and it is really inspiring. as we visited we have had to travel by helicopter because of the heavy traffic of bringing suvs and filling up the six and eight-lane boulevards. quite a contest from young. it is really a classic example of the success of free market, democracy over totalitarian government. at the same time, it is really led to a concern that i have about the role of china and russia. it would seem like it would be in their interests that there would be a level of security, economic security, military, to have some reforms, and north korea, but what is the role of china and russia and particularly with the transition in government? what have they -- how have their actions been matched? >> i can answer that first. china as a great deal of influence on north korea, probably more than any other country in the world. we look to china to use this influence constructively to pres

. >> wel we are biological creatures.+ it does not mean that we're also spiritual creatures and ethical creatures. we have a brain sitting inside the skull and we hav to address >> you say that these chemicals can change, modify, alter, nuance the gene itself? >> eventually, yes. as time goes on, yes. >> does is the brain irreplaceable? >> you can't substitute it. there is no transplant. you can't transplant a brain. >> are you sure that won't happen some day? >> it won't. there is no way you could do that. it would be too difficult to imagine, but parts of brains could be put from one to another. if you did, you would transfer one personality to another personality. the personality is embedded in the brain. >> well, the brain, the biggest part of the head is about the size of the head, right? >> yes. >> what is the smallest part of the brain you could take out and put back in? >> you would want to take a part out that would be powerful, like the experiments where they have done implants of dopamine cells. there is an example. you take some cells innd put them into another brain. >> hav

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we have three or four competing wel reduce our security requirements to the bare minimum which i think is the wrong thing especially at the government level. >> thank you. mr. livingood, given the concerns outlined by dr. sunshine about outlining the dns sect, can you tell us why come baft made the decision to begin using dns sect and whether or not you think it has had the intended benefits that you think it would have? >> sure. it's a long-term gain there. i think one of the challenges was that you needed some critical mass for people to start signing their names, to build software to do that we felt like we could play a role in creating that critical mass. that's part of the reason we did it. i think the reason, you know, at root why we did that, when the cam ins i can vulnerability came out in 2008, it fundamental scared the heck out of us. if our customers couldn't be sure when they went to bank of america.com, it was that website, that scared us because they're less likely to use the internet and that's incredibly important to us. to have a way -- we all certainly had a short ter

attorney general, wel have questions for the record, but i wanted to pursue this public integrity unit's misconduct against senator stevens. the court appointed council after you moved to dismiss the case, the court appointed council to investigate the botched prosecution of senator stevens and found the prosecutors engaged in systematic concealment of evidence, but they were not guilty of criminal contempt. according to the summary that was put out in the public, the full report coming later, it said that the court said despite findings of widespread and at times intentional misconduct, the special counsel, mr. schulke recommended against contempt charges because prosecutors did not disobey a clear and required under law.view of docket and proceedings in the stevens case, mr. schulke concludes no such order existed in this case. whether the court accepted the repeated representations of the subject prosecutors that they were familiar with their discovery obligations were complying with those obligations and were proceeding in good faith. my question to you is, does it concern you that t

wels, an executive with the american optical corporation, and some friends and family went up to vermont to go golfing for a weekend. problem was it poured rain. they couldn't go golfing. somebody suggested they go antiquing instead. mr. welles said i don't want to waste my weekend at a bunch of old junk shops. they prevailed on him to go anyway. he had an e pifs now moment. he fell in love with mouse traps, wooden bowls, rolling pins. the things most people had rel kate e gated to attics and barns. that very first weekend mr. welles bought two wagon loads of antiques. it became an all consuming mania after that. he ended up having to move his family out of his mansion because there wasn't room for them and all the antiques. he had two large barns moved to the property. filled them literally to the rafters with antiques and still didn't have enough room and started to at that point realize he wasn't going to live forever and then when he died his children would probably sell dad's junk and it would all come to naught. so what he did which a lot of people of his class did at the time was

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and public works committee in the senate and author of the new book the greatest hoax of the global wel tag conspiracy to is your future. talk about all that and more. thank you for being here. let's set with oil prices. $110 on the pipeline explosion report denied by the saudis. the president in new hampshire talks about yesterday about whae gas prices and the amount of oii we drill at home does not set the price of gas on its own because oil is bought annd sold on the market. just like last year, causing thi price of world to rise, the ie biggest thing is instability ine >>e middle east. do you agree?: >> guest: no.ing >> host: what is affecting guest: of >> guest: millions of people watching this right now, and there is not what he did not di learn in elementary school the basics of supply and demand. here we are in the united states of america with the largest recb recoverable reserves in coal,col oil, and gas of any country in the world. we have enough gas right now. of course it is increasing every day. we could be -- we would have 90h years of gas just from us. sixty years of oil

stormy day on saturday and cooler one as wel well. still breezy on sunday but mostly sunny and calmer and milder with high in the 60's. we'll see mid upper 60's monday and tuesday wednesday of next week that's not taking a sharp enough shape that we can tell you how intense storm it will be. >> thanks very much. >> as we continue. baby whale in distress. up next. specia specializezezezezezezeliia sweetheart. we need to t talk. i've seen your stunts online. i can explain... jumping a ramp in a shopping cart. so 2005. wait, what? and only 3 likes? honey, it's embarrassing. carol's son got over 12 million views on that dancing squirrel video. don't you want that? i...i suppose. now go make your dad and me proud. tryomething funny. [ male announcer ] now everyone's up to speed. get high speed internet for $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one year term. at&t. >> wild life. scientist say honey bee and bumble bee are getting sick from very common class of pesticide. it's used on 90 percent of corn crops in the united states. it's attackin

roth wel's family says they believe that kelly is dead, but they want to bring her body home. perry moved to new york abruptly, after roth weldisappeared. kai? >> roth welwas training as a police cadet when she disappeared. >>> some good news on the jobs front in maryland. in january, the state added 5,000 jobs, lowering the unemployment rate to 6 1/2%. the figure is the state's lowest since january of 2009. the national unemployment figure is at 8.3%. nearly all of the job growth, 82%, was created in the private sector. >>> looks like winter is over, despite what the calendar says. wjz is in towson today and found people outside enjoying the above-average temperatures. some at the park, others in the garden, whatever. look at that. we all need to get in our gardens, don't we? here's a look at a pleasant afternoon, with clouds and sunshine. wjz has weather and traffic together. meteorologist bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers from first warning weather. >> hello, kai. and we continue to say this and sound like a broken record. but another very warm afternoon. sh

you're bullish on tech as wel as and what about housing? >> biggest sectors we this year have been tech and and energy. we like all of them this year. but in the background we want to keep an eye on it's not on too many people's radar. the housing market has been g the broad market since 2011. now the housing ind, which has been in a range now for the better parof years is not far from breaking above the top of the range. so we' housing, the housing stocks are doing well, they're coming up to the top end of a three-year range where we expect it to pause and stutter step. but in the back half of the year, if we're right about keeping the bullish focus, banking, technology and energy, and housing, simply a position people don't have. >> oil moving to 110 a barrel. what do the charts say? >> energy's our favorite sector this year, while the market consolidates in march and april, we think energy goes higher. it will be heating oil. the maet cannot sit down, even when you had a chance to decline the best the market can do is go sideways. when y

snow levels today close to 2,50t wel talk about your weekend weather forecast when we come right backy in the bay." >>> an update on our storm coverage now. a tree that fell on to a menlo park house early this morning injured no one. we just got off the phone with the fire department and they tell us that a huge oak fell from a neighboring yard and landed on a duplex on loyola avenue. it went through the roof of the front unit and one of the residents says it sure gave him a shock. >> and it just was an amazing sound. the whole bedroom, the whole house was shaking and rocking and, you know, it was like a ten-car pileup. it was just going crazy. >> fortunately no one was injured when the tree fell on to the duplex. the people living in the front part of the duplex are staying away until the tree can be removed. that is something we've seen a lot of in the last round of rain, rob, you say the ground is so saturated. >> it is. when you get trees like that and the winds get going, the branches and leaves will act like parachutes or drag it. it helps to pull the larger trees down, in some

bill clinton ran against wel fair as we know it. george w. bush was a compassionate conservative. out to be hollow, but he was trying to be nice. mitt romney has given moderates and independents, people in the middle of the spectrum, nothing. ed koch had a great slogan. he said if you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues vote with me. if you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist. and mitt romney has been trying to please, you know, these right wing crazies all the time. and it has severely damaged the guy. i mean, severely damaged. >> and when you think about the moves that bill clinton made to the center, to that side of the party -- >> the center. >> running electorally. he was doing nit the primaries. people think nixon suggest that had you can kind of ignore the primaries. you have to get started early. >> and you particularly can't ignore them in this kind of media environment. where, you know, we're not talking about going to talk to a quiet room. everybody has got a cell phone. anything you say is going to be available on sound, on television for a long ti

john reed retired from citigroup a year later, after losing out in a power struggle with sandy wel. he went on to serve as interim ceo of the new york stock exchange and now chairs the board at mit. as wall street collapsed in 2008, reed watched in disbelief, and began to have second thoughts about it all including the wisdom of repealing glass-steagall. you were a key player when traveler's and citicorp merged. how big was this to you at that time? >> it was not that big. you know, it clearly was a important transaction from our point of view. and it was hopefully -- it turned incorrectly -- but it was hopefully going to transform sort of the opportunity space in which the bank operated from a business point of view. our customers were saying, "hey, we don't want to come to you for loans. they're too expensive. we can sell our paper into the capital markets more cheaply. we can finance ourselves more cheaply." >> your customers being? >> being large companies. and these customers were saying, "we want you to intermediate the capital markets." now, that is the traditional business o

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so tell me about this third day and what we might read from the questioning of the justice >> wel charlie, tis was yet another astonishing day in the courtroom because the big issue of the day was so-called severability which means if the individual mandate is struck down, does the rest of the affordable care act go with it. and the takeaway i had from that argument is the individual mandate looks pretty doomed to me because anthony kennedy so often the swing vote clearly i think the swing vote herewas kinguestion aer question based on the assumption that the court would strike down the individual mandate and even more incredibly to me he and several other justices were raising the serious possibility that the rest of the law would go with it thousands of pages of law-- some of it clearly constitutional and not even that controversial-- that may go with it according to at least some of the justices and maybe a majority. >> rose: in oth words if i can paraphrase, they seem to indicate a reluctance to pick and choose among the provisions of the law whether one was constitutional or not? >>

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. >> reporter: wel >> well, it doesn't, because most everybody in oklahoma now is a republican, whether stated or unstated. so there's not much that opportunity for debate, unless they run into one of us democrats. >> reporter: how do you handle that? >> we handle it with all guns blazing. i'm an attorney too, and i have a lot of republican friends, just by nature of where i live. but i travel to other parts of the country often, and you just handle it civilly. >> reporter: jason, good to talk to you, when he says, we handle it guns blazing, i actually ran into jason at a gun shop across the road. >> all right, thank you, ali. president obama hoping to steal a little bit of the republican's thunder today. he's holding a news conference in just a couple of minutes. i want to bring in jessica yellin at the white house and alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange for a preview. first of all, let's go to you, jessica. there's clearly a strategy here. we saw on the day of the michigan primary, the president going out before american autoworkers, reminding them, hey, i bailed you guys o

wel well. >> well, you do mention a number of cases of past suicides, homicides, and involved troopsell us about a couple cases. >> typically what you'll have -- i mostly looked at very elite soldiers, special forces soldiers, who typically do not commit suicide or commit suicide in very low percentage rates. and what i found is a series of cases where soldiers would take the drug and they would have a cluster of symptoms. they would have mental problems, psychotic reactions, but they would also have rashes, problems with their vision, they would dizziness, intestnal problems. all that would happen at once. it looked like basically they were being poisoned. and in several cases, they acted out, killing themselves and/or others. >> we also know for sure, and this has been documented, that bales has a tbi, traumatic brain injury. what we don't know is that he took this drug, lariam, for malaria, obviously. but you did discover in your report a link between tbi and this drug, right? >> that's right. the army says people who have a traumatic brain injury, who have a problem in their brai

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i know we are doing wel i talked with mr., we talked about all of this because it is possible to recreate jobs. i'm from the airfort. i heard the young lady talk about education, and i've been dealing with education since the beginning of my life. but i have a wish. i think that. very often people that are independent do not have the same working conditions house volunteers as the administration's, and so i think that independent people should be encouraged to do good and therefore continuity is a challenge, and look at where it says the cultural theme. you have a lot of people who do feel better and dancing, do poetry come all these people are independent, and not a whole lot is invested in these people, and i think this is going to be bad for our descendants, for the children if we neglect culture. there is a great potential for young people coming and i think that we should encourage music, musicians to give more latitude to people who are independent. welcome culture should be encouraging otherwise we are not going to be

from the state of connecticut which has a tremendous amount of financial sesophistication and you are wel aware, as a former prosecutor, how important some of these issues are. but it's important to get this right. the bill, again, has come over from the house, rushed over here, has not gone through our banking committee. i would be happy to negotiate with anybody on this floor. i am not, you know, we haded to any particular position on the small business pieces. they're in there, they're good. question take them out and it can just be a banking bill. although we have a lot of support for the increase in the sbic's and the 504 lending, which is very important to the business lending community. but i feel so strongly about getting the deregulation part of this bill correct, i'd take that out if it would help my republican colleagues to negotiate on the other part of the bill. so i see senator levin on the floor. i'm going to turn it over to him now. but, please, i'm -- i'm really pleading with my colleagues, take a look at this house bill, just read some of the details, read some of the gr

it was only after barack obama won the iowau caucus and did wel in some of the other primariesi -- and he really workedr hard to get african-americans on his side, the african-american community went for him. it's true that black americans especially in presidential politics and prose overwhelmingly favor the democraticat candidate. i don't think that they are acting with a herd mentality. i don't think they're acting b under dent of brainwashing. i don't think that they are acting unthinkingly. i think the great mass of black americans size up the candidates and make a thoughtful decision about which candidate they're going to havedi policies that o balance are going to best serve their interests. and i think that the great mass of black americans made up their minds that barack obama would do that. with respect to your comment about the term "racist," i agree with you. racist is an interesting term. it is a word, an idea, that fortunately has been -- it's an idea that is highly stigmatizing to american life, especially, if you're an electoralat politicia. you do not want to be viewed

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