. >> eric: white board, quickly. in america, we spend $927 billion in on welfare. not include the social security checks to elderly. 100 million people receive benefits. almost $300 per person. family of four gets $37,000 per year on average. the working family makes $51,900 a year. how is this? almost set it up that is better off, better to stay home and take benefits. >> bob: there is the -- there is eric's white board. >> greg: on that note. doing a card trick but we do it in the break. coming up, who were the biggest winners of the week? i'll give you a pick. if you leave now i won't wax my back for a week. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back, everybody. it's been interesting week. a lot of drama. winners, losers, feelings hurt, people cried. that is just inn the studio. we were wondering big picture, who won the week? the ball player, celebrity, kid with the heart defect, who? kimberly, for you. >> kimberly: step up to the plate. mitt romney is the big winner of the week. how can he not be? this is a presidential election. obama had a tough week. poll numbers, losin

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two sisters move to new york, and one keeps an all-white boarding house on the upper westside. another winds up living on long island. she fancies herself a feminist and publishes a pamphlet. she talks about herself as a white person. talks about her interactions with black people. the closest you get to understanding that she is o.s.b. wahl's daughter is when she says she keeps a picture of abraham lincoln on her mirror. and then there's steven wahl. >> so steven was the last? he's the last colored wahl, is he not? >> right. so he -- the last of o.s.b. wahl's line. so he stays in the howard hill neighborhood for a long time, and then the children decide that they want to sell the house. you know, you have the parents that have died, the children all own it together. they decide to sell the house. they sell the house. it's razed, and a segregated school is built on the site. and with that money with his share steven wahl moves to a different neighborhood near catholic university. and he decides he's not going to change his name and he continues to work at the government printing

talking and sort of get ideas working and it is the sort of thing now you say put ideas up on the white board and kick it around. >> and george washington wouldn't be sitting in control then at that point. >> he was not then. they had a massachusetts delegate, nathaniel gorham. >> same thing in the house with the committee of the whole. committee of style. >> that was the last committee. it really turned out to just be governor morris. he wrote the final draft. he took this really quite messy set of provisions, 23 article-long draft constitution and totally reorganized it and made it coherent and did a great job and about two and a half days. >> what was the committee of five? >> the committee of five was i think right in the middle of the convention when they were trying to figure out how many congressman each state would get. what happened was they made this deal where the senate would go to get per state voting and so equal votes in the senate and the house would be proportional voting, and clearly the practical politicians in the room said, okay, this is great, how many did we get? so the

. >> greg: he has three white boards. >> eric: between here when they deny knowledge and when they retract their denial, if we find out that eric holder had knowledge, e-mail with his name on it -- >> bob: if there is an e-mail like that do you think it will show up? >> eric: i would hope so. i hope so. >> bob: i would be shocked. >> eric: 1300 tages is what we're talking about, out of 140,000 documents. >> bob: that is normal for congress, they request everything. they end up with a fraction. most leave it anyway. >> eric: president obama holds news conference shortly. we look at what some call the dream act light and what it means to the u.s. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back to "the five." now to fall-out from president obama's policy changes. he is wrapping up the final trip before the election and he is at the g-20 summit where he got a thank you from the country's leader for deciding to halt depor ration for certain -- deportation for certain illegal immigrants. >> i would personally like to thank personally and on behalf of the mexican nation, president barack obama for his valuable d

well, bring out the white boards, because it looks like the tightening presidential race is about theoter rolls are the most important part of this. scott walker nominated a plan to purge the voting rolls to purge illegitimate voters, and now he is ordered to stop that. and now the secretary of state is giving the d.o.j. his own deadline, this coming monday to explain why it is illegal to remove noncitizens from the rolls, and in a letter to the d.o.j., he writes that the department of state respecti respectively, excuse me, respectfully disagrees with the d.o.j.'s action and the actions taken by florida to identify and remove non-citizens from its voter rolls ensure that the right to vote of citizens is protected and it is not diluted. and this is what attorney general eric holder had to say. >> the problem with florida says that it runs counter of the federal rules saying that you cannot do this 90 days within an election a yond u can , and you florida has done and in north carolina and georgia and they did it via the right way. >> with this showdown, the stakes may be who ends up i

so they have a brain storm and put it on the white board and they say that is a perfect idea. of voicing it out loud and running it by a few people, it comes out and they make fun of it. >> steve: what would happen if say your friend is getting married and you get them a card that says, i have donated $100 to the election of barak obama. it turns out the person is a republican. >> that happened on "the five" when bob beckel donated on the names of others. >> brian: a lot of powerful people showed up, including karl rove and mitt romney. one of the people that stole the show, condoleeza rice. what can you tell us, if anything, about the speech that evidently everyone is talking about? >> condoleeza rice is one of those people where brian, this might not ever happen to you. you go into a meeting and starts speaking and everyone shuts up. when she speaks, what i've noticed is that everyone turns and listens 'cause her intellect, grace, ability to make an argument is so effective and she's such an attractive person. she's so fun and plays a lot of golf as well. she's very successf

through this line of argument he could keep the largest segment of the white population on board with the stupendous national effort that exacted a terrible human and material toll. we always need to remember 45% of the people living in the united states are democrats. democrats don't care about emancipation. they could not care less. they will not rally to a war that they believe is primarily about emancipation. they will rally only to a war they believe is about union. lincoln's statements make that clear. in his last annual message to congress dated december 6th, 1864, lincoln put it very bluntly. in a great national crisis like ours, unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable, almost indispensable. in this case the common end is the maintenance of the union. the emancipation of slaves, he added, stands, quote, among the means to secure that end. this is after he's been re-elected in 1864, that he's still highlighting union rather than emancipation. the military story also tells us the confederate armies could take away what the union arms had brought. s

if you took a white board and started over, most would agree that's the direction we should go. the table is, does the affordable care act do that and better ways to do that? >> paul keckly, thank you for joining us. >> do you think that will happen, sanjay? >> i don't think health care insurance necessarily leads to good health. i think that's an important point. you and i both know with good insurance and in bad health. so i think that this point that, you know, we need to become a healthier america and ultimately solve a lot of problems -- >> that's a whole other question. >> it's important because we say we'll focus on health care insurance but we're driving up costs and fueling the debate more so but i also don't know that disincentives work in this situation. incentivizing people -- >> i think people want to be healthy. you're hard pressed to find somebody that say i'm happy to be unhealthy. they're not empowered to do it. >> can i -- i mean, i want to ask sanjay, what do you say to people and don't you think that ultimately -- i think that the answer is single payer unive

i am chairman of the board of the white house historical association. association is honored to be a part of today's historic ceremony and to have played a role in arranging for the magnificent portrait that is about to be unveiled. the association was founded 50 years ago with two specific missions, the first is to educate and inform the public about the history of the white house and the distinguished groups of americans who have the -- inhabited it. it is an exciting time for us. we marked our 50th anniversary. to the north of the white house we have just launched the new national center for let us -- white house history. the next year, to the south, we will open a new white house this their center. it will give millions of visitors -- the visitor center. it will give millions of visitors a new understanding. of life in the white house. if we acquire something on the east and west we will havethe oe association is to preserve the white house public room and it's remarkable collection of fine arts. over the last 10 decades, the association as provide

white boys. it's still where we are. and so when i'm recruiting board members, there is an abundance of talented women. there is an abundance of indigenous women that offer incredible resources to my company. because i'm not just looking for a particular thin slice of qualifications. i'm not just looking for people who have made a lot of money. we do have, you know, a really talented middle age, middle class white guy, former cfo who knows lots about how to chase a single bottom line hard, and he's on the board. but he's one of a group of collective people that are contributing to build a business that is more than just the pursuit of quarterly profit down one single track, which is what men's brains are so darn good at. i appreciate that he carries that intelligence into the mix, but it's not the only form of intelligence. so, we're back to the stranded asset, stranded talent, wasted people, all over the world. and we have to learn to see those other aptitudes in ourselves and in other people and in people whose pigment is really different. >> i just w

i'm the chairman of the board of the white house historical association.are honored to be a part of today's historic ceremony and to have played a role in arranging the magnificent portrait about to be unveiled. the white house historical association was founded 50 years ago by first lady jacqueline kennedy if the two specific missions. the first is to educate and inform the public about the history of the white house and the distinguished group of american that have inhabited it. in this regard, this is an exciting time as we mark her 50th anniversary, campaign for white house history. we have just launched the new david rubenstein national center for white house history. next year, to the south, we will open a newly redesigned white house visitors center. it will give the millions of visitors to washington a chance to gain a broader understanding of life in the white house. if we could just acquire something on the east and the west, we would have you surrounded. the other mission is to find bonds to preserve the public rooms and enhance its incomparable

white. it was across the board. i think this should be a national issue. it is so important. we say that we -- we say that national security is important. this is national security. our democracy is at risk. if we want to be secure, our people have to be secure economically and have to be included in our society. tavis: you have raised the phrase the new poor. i use it, too, but i mean the former middle-class. talk to me about how the middle class for the former middle class has been so hit by poverty. i was watching tv two nights ago this week, it must have been sunday night, lester holt on nbc on "dateline" ready did a wonderful piece -- of a good 60 minutes" did it a few months ago, to -- he did a piece where he specifically spent the entire ur with three different families who were once firmly affixed in the middle-class and they are now completely impoverished and have lost everything. talk to me about what poverty has done to the middle class as we know it. >> it turns out that you can see it in the numbers. we had 31 million poor people in the year 2000. we have 46 mil

i am chairman of the board of the white house historical association. association is honored to be part of this historic ceremony and to have played a role in preparing the magnificent portraits about to be unveiled. the association was founded 50 years ago with two specific missions, the first is to educate and inform the public about the history of the white house and the distinguished groups of americans who have inhabited it. it is an exciting time for us. we marked our 50th anniversary. to the north of the white house we have just launched the new national center for let us history. the next year, to the south, we will open a new white house the visitor center. it will give millions of visitors a new understanding. if we acquire something on the east and west we will have the police surrounded. are proud to have provided funds for financial support. through the portraits of our presidents, it is a wonderful tradition that here, our country honors those who have honored us. the tradition began with the acquisition of george washington's portrait in

the white sox on the board. four hits for de aza tonight.nx bombers adding one more to make it 3-1. in the ninth yankees make an error, and they pay for it. dayan viciedo with a dramatic home run in the ninth, and the white sox pull one out in new york. what a win for the white sox in new york. now on to tennis and wimbledon. the big men's upset the number two seed, rafael nadal, is out in the second round. he lost to lukas rosol the 100th player in the world. that is the earliest exit for pineda in a glassmyer since 2005. now the euro cup the semi-finals today. germany against italy. the winner will take spain in the finals. italy up 1-0 in the second half when mario balotelli knocks one in. he scored two goals in the game. italy hangs on 2-1. they will face spain in the finals of the euro cup. dwyane wade will miss the olympics because of knee surgery. cobb cobb gets a 10-year contract for $104 million from the pens. $104 million not bad. that's it. the bulls again picking taylor teagarden as their first and only selection here. >> thank y

of energy to edit an e-mail -- excuse me, edit a letter that their chairman of the board was going to send to the white house chief of staff? do you think that's unusual? >> well, i don't know. it's nothing that i've ever done. but whether it's unusual or not, i don't know what common practice is. >> you've been in the white house six times to talk about energy projects and you don't know what common -- >> well, i mean, i don't know -- >> do you think it's uncommon to get that specific and ask the person who's supposed to say yea or nay on a loan project that we would like you to edit this letter that our chairman is going to send to the white house chief of staff? >> i don't think i've ever personally sent an e-mail to the white house so i don't have a lot of experience in this area. >> maybe you didn't have to send one, you got to talk to him in person. i think the gentleman would now go to our second round of questioning and would yield to the ranking member for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. although members of congress from both parties have supported 1705 loan guarantees for

on this day in texas we boarded air force one and left the white house morning of the 20 first and flewo san antonio, texas. on board the aircraft, we went from san antonio to houston. quince houston to fort worth and got into fort worth after midnight. we hadn't had a chance to eat anything because we were on the go all the time. wasn't that unusual. we usually had a bag of peanuts in our pocket. >> there weren't enough people. >> not enough people, not enough time. >> one or two more questions. yes, sir? [inaudible] >> is there anything that we don't know that you or anyone else is not telling? [laughter] >> there's nothing that i am aware of that hasn't been revealed. all the information is out there. the only thing i am aware of that may not have been revealed is tax information. i understand there was some lot that required that particular information to not be revealed. anything regarding this assassination is out. >> did you ask a question already? yes, sir? >> a great picture of you and kennedy. >> i was thrown in the missouri river when i was 7 or 8 years old. i've learned how

i am chairman of the board of the white house historical association.tion was founded 50 years ago with two specific missions, the first is to educate and inform the public about the history of the white house and the distinguished groups of americans who have the -- inhabited it. it is an exciting time for us. we marked our 50th anniversary. to the north of the white house we have just launched the new national center for let us history. the next year, to the south, we will open a new white house this their center. it will give millions of visitors -- the visitor center. it will give millions of visitors a new understanding. if we acquire something on the east and west we will have the police surrounded. -- place surrounded. [laughter] are proud to have provided funds for financial support. -- the association is proud to provide $40 million for refurbishing and making important acquisitions for the white house. through the portraits of our presidents, it is a wonderful tradition that here, our country honors those who have honored us. the tradition beg

nothing that we expected to do but you know this is this is bloomberg sort of being like board in old and white and rich and sort of arguing that the slaves on his plantation are really welfare you know so i mean he is protecting black people from themselves by taking away their guns when you really believe that you don't they're not you're not finding doesn't mean it's not horace if anything they might find you know somebody has a little weed on them or something like that you know it's not weapons that they're confiscating if you know the numbers and the way the way these frisk i mean police officers who suspect that somebody is armed they don't approach people the way the n.y.p.d. cops approach people on the street for stop and frisk you know for their stop and frisk those guys are not going to be armed and they're not going to put up any resistance that's why they do it you know if they really thought that they were in a threatening scenario it would be a much different much more planned out then they're just walking up to casually but you know i do find it really interesting that he actual

i am asking the board to restore 5 under thousand dollars for funding for hiv-positive you that lots due to cuts. as you know, the mayor restore the ryan white part aid funding and we are hoping the board will restore the part b funding for youth and insure uses for positive you remain intact. larkin street serves about 80 youths every year with a conference a set of services designed to keep you healthy, connected to medical care, and to help them to transition into adulthood. we survey the record of class with a high level of need. if replacement funding is not secured, there will be no youth- specific h.i.v.-testing in san francisco. we anticipate this will mean you would get tested later, know their status later, and put their and their partners held at risk. if this funding is not replaced for hiv-positive youth, we risk losing war greatly reducing our nursing care mental health care, and here at the service. we'd dissipate this will result in more to having difficulty stabilizing their help and less coordination between mental health and primary health care and more emergency services. it is crucial that youth- specific hiv services in

more men are putting women on boards and i've actually heard white men stand in front of audiences and say i love this. they're not as interested in being right as doing the right thing, and it has been great, and i want to just announce that there is a campaign called face it facebook because i want you to know young women started this, and they are trying to get zuckerberg to actually put a woman on his board, two women, three men. they have an all-male board, therefore an all-male board, and he's about to do this huge going public with no women on his board, and he says he's a company that's about the values of society and fairness, so i just want to alert you to this because we have a campaign, these young women and young women are like go young women so you should go on facebook and ultraviolet will help you sign on to help mark do the right thing. thank you. [ applause ] >> i would like to ask the panelists if you have any comments, anything else you'd like to add on the discussion so far. >> i wanted to just add to what was said about percentages on boards. australia had not man

and in an age when cynicism toward government became endemic, justice white believed in the good faith of police officers, school boards, officials, jury and administrators charged with the public trust. to be sure, the assumption was rebuttal, the confidence could be broken, but he never expected or demanded perfection for he well understood that neither human beings nor any institutions they create could be flawless. public officials without exception were accountable under the law for transgressions, but they were allowed retractable discretion to perform their duties. when justice white died in 19929 at the age of 84, almost a decade after he had retired from the court, the "new york times" struggled to capture the significance of his career. his own judicial legacy remained a complex and somewhat ambiguous one. he never achieved the stardom or public recognition on the supreme court that he had received earlier, not that he sought either at any point in his life. an authentic celebrity in an era before fame became an everyday commodity, he was also the most reluctant of celebrities, viewing win tense distaste whic

yesterday, 24 young women suited up in white robes, they put on their mortar boards, got their diplomasded to them by miss andrews. miss andrews tells us that all of today's graduates, all of the graduates this week have applied for college, including this young woman, ikea dozier. she came to katherine ferguson academy 2 1/2 years ago. she's now the mother of a 2 1/2-year-old son. she was the valedictorian of the class of 2012 at katherine ferguson. she's going to be attending the university of detroit on a full scholarship. >> remember that our success is not ours alone. it is tied into our children. by getting our diplomas here today, we are giving our children a better chance at making it in this world. a lot of us are only here today because of our children, so they deserve our very best. i'm not going to sugar coat it. this journey we are all about to embark on will be rough. we will want to quit and to take the easy way out. but we need to promise ourselves today that we won't. we are all too smart, too strong, and too beautiful to quit. >> congratulations, katherine ferguson aca

the department of energy to proofread a letter that they're chairman of the board now commerce secretary plans to send to the white house chief of staff. a couple of the highlighted things. send me comments or suggested ways to improve this message. asking for edits from the department of energy. contained in the draft letter is the statement, dear bill, we need a commitment from the white house to quarterback loan closure between omb and department of energy by march 18th. later on the the draft letter they are asking for edits, they said we need guidance and support from the white house. this takes place in march of 2011. the loan guarantee is approved on april 11th, 2011. were any of those visits during this time frame, the spring of 2011? >> i would think that probably there were some. >> some prior to the april 11, 2011 approval of the loan guarantee? >> i would think there would be more before than after. >> this project is a big project. this is one big deal to your company and bright source? >> well, mr. chairman, you have to understand two things. this project at that basis, we were involved but it was st

for them to ask the department of energy to edit a letter that the chairman of the board was going to send to the white house chief of staff? d. think that's unusual? >> i don't know. it's nothing that i've ever done, but whether it's unusual or not i don't know what common practice is spent keeping and the white is expected to energy projects and you don't know common practice. >> i -- >> d. think it's uncommon to get that specific to ask a person is supposed to say dane or nay on a specific project to ask speak to i don't think i've ever person sent a letter or enough to the white house. i do have a lot of experience in this area. >> maybe you didn't have to send one. you were there authentic you could talk in person. i think the gentleman. would not go to her second round of questioning and would yield to the ranking member for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. although members of congress from both parties have supported 1705 loan guarantees for projects in their districts, it now appears that some of my friends in the majority have had a change of heart. in a report published in

white house. we have a new virginia poll and for that we check the "hardball" score board. a new poll has president obama holding a five point lead over mitt romney in virginia. the race is getting tighter and it was eight in march. now to michigan, the state thought to be leaning to obama, romney how has a one point lead over the president in a new poll, romney 46-45. >>> there it is, welcome back to i have heard you're great and you are, i love your league of women voters organization. coming up, dirty angry money, we saw what the money did in wisconsin this week, do the sharks smell blood? apparently so. will the republicans spend their way to victory? and mitt romney says it's okay to blame president obama from the millions of bush job losses in mr. obama's first year, but for romney's record, well his first year just doesn't count. and they may be allies, but bill clinton and president obama are battling for opposing candidates. and let me start with this dirty angry money. this is "hardball," a place for politics. [ female announcer ] when skin meets goddess... romanc