issues and white america. even to this day he cannot really approach the subject without being criticized for being narrow in scope as the president of the united states so he has to back off and only when a crisis erupts is he called upon that he has to talk about about an issue whether it is in boston or cambridge or some other issue that erupts so we have felt that he is restricted in that sense the president of the united states he has responsibilities for all of us, but we want to focus on the race issue because there are such a glaring disparities in income and equal opportunity in terms of what is taking place within a black community as far as incarceration. this was the first race and reconciliation conference. we had to others, the second was about health and wellness we were concerned about obesity so we devoted the second conference to talking about health and wellness and we had a number of top doctors, futurists and others dealing with the subject of how we stay will and the last one which was re

the emphasis now for the white house and frankly the challenge now for the white house is to convince the american people that this health care reform is providing something beneficial for them right now. we're going to hear a lot about, for example, the fact that young adults can now stay on their parents' insurance until the age of 26. i mean, this is going to be a huge issue in terms of the joblessness problem right now. frankly, there are a lot of kids coming out of college. a lot of parents can relate to this. the kids don't have jobs which means they're not getting insurance through their jobs. this is going to make a real difference for those folks. and make no mistake, it was not an accident. the first benefit that the president mentioned today was the small business tax credits, which they would argue will help to create jobs. so there's no question they want to talk about some of these popular reforms. >> and speaking of popular or unpopular vote, this is the president acknowledging that congress took some lumps. >> that our generation is able to succeed in passing this refo

we need white people to top that.as we said earlier every time we talk about racism and injustice they say, there they go again. when men like my husband, when they speak out, our rabbi, when he speaks out to listen. they pay attention. so i am so grateful for him and his commitment. >> host: well, knowing him over the years and reading about him. knowing where he grew up. until you what seems struck, the dates that you were born, august 28. to me sometimes i think about that date and what happened years later after you were born, the march on washington. maybe like a burden. sometimes i call it the spirit of history. a date and time and place. so just maybe, just maybe those forces contract the two of you down at this time. >> guest: i think it was totally coincidental. >> guest: i believe in it. >> guest: it was almost by accident that we ran into each other. i was deeply involved in the committee at that time during the impeachment resolution is that we were looking at. i had to go back to maine. a stop in boston.

the reason whites gets defensive about talking conversations about race is that it suggestses that whitese conscious hostility against blacks. people get defensive about it. i think what a lot of the signs have shown over the last two decades, a lot of racism and prejudice happens unconsciously. a lot of blacks are unconsciously against blacks as well. so it is not just a white versus black issue. everyone is responsible for it and once you think about this with the unconscious mind and you know, in some ways it takes the sting out of it because you can say i need to do something about it but it is not so much my fault. >> i guess the question for me now is whether or not we are hiding behind the unconscious when it comes to issues of race and gender, sexism, patriarchy. are we hiding behind this hidden brain? hiding behind the unconscious or is this a more damning statement about the fact that we do not celebrate and revel in the humanity of each other? those are two different things to me. >> yeah, i see what you're saying. i think in many ways people can hide behind the unconscious. i

obama won the white house. gays and lesbians lost the right to marry in california. >> we're trying to figure out what to do next. we thought about the idea of a possible legal challenge to proposition 8. a friend of my wife's came by the table. >> reporter: the friend suggested they would find an ally in her former brother-in-law who turned out to be ted olson, a towering figure in the conservative legal movement. >> so that stunned you, right? >> yes. it more than stunned me. it stunned me, but i said if this is true, this is the home run of all times. i mean, the idea that ted olson, this arch conservative, the solicitor general for george bush who had argued bush v gore and basically put me in bed for a couple of days, i was so depressed, was interested in gay rights. i thought let's check it out. >> didn't you have any doubts about ted olson? >> you know, they say politics makes strange bed fellows. you don't have a stranger bed fellow than me and ted olson. >> chad griffin was also at the polo lounge. he

eleven months for white america. why is that not part of our entire history. >> host: we selected the shortest one. i hear that a great deal. >> guest: a think that the president can't really and should not confined by this. we feel that we have our obligation to speak out about this. i feel a special obligation because i was a lawmaker as well and i helped write some of those laws that are -- in fact, they have a discriminatory impact. they may not have been designed that way, but when you write a law that says if you have 5 grams of crack cocaine we will give you the same prints incenses as if you have 500 grams of powder. there is something wrong with that picture. crack is used by the inner city blacks and powder is used by suburban whites, more likely. such a disparity in terms of how the impact is, that is one of the reasons why the way the war on drugs has been conceived and implemented, executed to be a disproportionate effect. and so that is an issue. black people tend to get water sentences than a white per

a black person could not look a white person in the i had to step off. they had sundowner rules here in this country we had to be back on the plantation and could not be in town after sundown. going to a movie theater the jewish people would have to sit weigh in about any -- in the balcony and we sat in the crow's nest for the buzzards roost and the jewish people had to wear the star of david on the front and back so they could be seen coming and going. we did not have to wear patches or pigmentation was enough to discern who we were. it is those parallels i talk about in the play she was a young teenager, he was 15 and she was 14 and lived in societies that did not allow them to survive. it could not protect them. being the same age as does emmett till his death affected me because what it taught me at my mother got me read the from the cradle from racism but his murder tommy what my country thought of me as a person of color. and and pranks murder and murder of the 6 million taught me that man's inhumanity to man. and there is something there and being

this is where john white lived. i did quite a lot of research on the origins of the lost colonists, because i rather dislike descriptions of people on the block here so i have this notion that lost colonists were kind of joined at the hip and would go everywhere together. because you couldn't distinguish one person from another. this is the first evidence that i'm aware of where we been able to trace the parish origins of at least some of the lost colonists, those from london. the majority of lost colonists maybe 75, 80% were from london. and these are the particular. is where groups were from. there were two main ones. here is where raleigh lived. but a whole number of these here in the city of london is the old wall, here's a london bridge. whole number of those parishes have a link. that doesn't the loss column is more, but there's circumstantial some of them may have had reformist tendencies. so perhaps another reason why some of the individuals was informed for religious purposes. never english. insta go to the

capitol, again, all white people?lty about having this on the capitol building? >> i do not think so. i don't think that they should feel guilty. it is just why is it only the white people going to these events? >> homeless man crossing the tracks as they leave the provisional homes under highway 395 on the district of columbia line. >> i took that one from the bridge. i knew that people were living down there because i saw boxes on the bridge. i went a couple of times to see activity to photograph them. >> miraculously survived being shot 27 times, at age 32 in this photograph. he was worried that his aggressor had been recently released from prison and might repeat the attack. why did he let you take his photograph? >> i asked him and he agreed. >> how did you find him? >> i was actually working on the street and i spent many days working with these people. >> did you go by yourself? >> a lot of times by myself but sometimes people came with me. you'd be surprised how open people can be when you are real and you tal

. >> larry: tonight, tv's golden girls sweetheart, betty white. a half million face back fans helped land her a special hosting gig. >> live from new york, it's "saturday night." >> larry: she's just signed to do a new tv series. and she's scored in a super bowl ad. >> you're playing like betty white out there. >> that's not what your girlfriend said. >> larry: what is is the secret of betty white's long success. >> larry: plus, dennis kucinich. his first press conference since changing his mind. and tiger woods and much more all next on "larry king live." >> larry: she's here, betty white is right here with us tonight. before we speak to her, we want to talk about the big news of the day. she's ticked that she's not on before him, dennis kucinich, democrat of ohio, he made headlines earlier today by announcing he's changed his mind and will vote for health care reform. was there any arm twisting involved here? >> no, i -- you know, the president and everyone else i spoke to was -- they made their case. i provided the counter argument as to the ch

and it put the white house -- it put our white house in a difficult position and it's put this whiteosition, because you couldn't defend the elements of the bill, you were trying to defend the process of moving it forward. so it was being framed in the most -- i hate to use the word "radical" -- but at least in the far left, or in our case, far more conservative light, and that made it more difficult to bring on moderate votes as the process moved to the senate. as that happened, the polling numbers go the wrong way and then you get the paralysis we're now seeing. so i think the very process they followed from a legislative perspective really contributed to their political difficulties that they're facing today. >> tell me this, dan, when -- take us to the moment that the president said, pull the plug. and where was he just like, forget it, we can't get this done, we have to move on. >> right. and i think you're getting to a similar place in which you start looking at the midterm elections. the leadership for both sides keeps coming to you and saying, we can't do this. and look, we a

megyn: the white house says this closed a big fat loophole. >> reporter: the white house and the democratic leadership in congress argue under the old law companies were getting two deductions because they were able to deduct from the taxes they pay the amount of the subsidy that the government was giving these companies to help them out. so the government was getting double build. robert gibbs told reporters to insure that this is not something that's done without any time period or planning this doesn't go into effect until 2013. gibbs point out there is $10 billion in healthcare reform for support for businesses with early retirees. i have difficulty figuring out how the government is establishing a net savings when the closure of the loophole is supposed to save when they are giving companies money to help with this. megyn: thank you, buddy. arizona senator john mccain is said to be in the toughest reelection battle of his career. he gets some help from his former running-mate, sarah palin. she'll be joining mccain in arizona shortly. he's facing a challenge from j.d. hayworth. how much

our senior white house correspondent ed henry is hearing the white house has enlisted a big politicalp push health care reform to victory. >>> and underwater for the second year in a row. we take to you a major u.s. city where people are at their wit's end over severe flooding. >>> and i wouldn't touch, this look at that, with a ten-foot pole. but one guy did. and the question is did he get sprayed? good evening, everyone. we tell you about a cnn exclusive. we are learning new information about the white house's final push to the health care overhaul bill. now, our senior white house correspondent ed henry joins us now by phone from washington, d.c. ed, you're hearing this first. you're in washington tonight. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, don, i'm at the gridiron, which is a long washington tradition. bill clinton, the former president, is the headliner for this dinner. he's going to start speaking soon. and i -- he was late to the dinner. so i started inquiring with some democrats outside the dinner, and i picked up from two democratic sources familiar with it, telling me

comedienne/actress, betty white is here with us. before we speak to her, we want to talk about the big news of the day. she's ticked that she's not on before him, dennis kucinich, democrat of ohio, he made headlines earlier today by announcing that he's changed his mind and will vote for health care reform. congressman, was there any arm twisting involved here? >> no, i -- you know, the president and everyone else i spoke to was -- they made their case. i provided the counter argument as to the changes that i wanted to see in the bill. but now we've moved beyond that, i think the things i want to see eventually in health care, we can move toward over the years. i described it this morning, i will say it again, this was a detour. if you hit a roadblock, you chae a choice, you can go straight and maybe go over a cliff or you can take a detour and eventually get to the destination you want to get to. i hope as i work with the president on the next step, we can deal with the issues like nutrition, complimentary issues, alternative medic

white grabbed the radio and begged for help.r and higher. >> i've already busted 10,000. i'm steady climbing. i need to stop the climb. all right. >> disengage the auto pilot. we're going to have you hand fly the plane. >> you find me the longest, widest runway you can, ma'am. >> i am joined now by the pair of voices you just heard on that aviation call, that call for help, and it's air traffic controller lisa grimm in orlando, florida with us and the man at the controls of that plane, doug white, joins me on the phone. first of all, mr. white, thanks for joining us. what did you -- what happened in the cockpit? >> you talking about at the beginning of the emergency? >> right at the beginning of the emergency. >> oh, we were in climb and had just gone through a cloud layer and you'll hear the whole tape, at the beginning you hear joe the pilot trying to call miami center. he just runs out of air. and i don't specifically remember hearing that because i'm just kind of looking out the window, you know, we hadn't been off the groun

it is overwhelmingly white. i agree completely argentina if you look what they've done the last five or six years the scandinavian countries i agree completely it isn't coincidence these countries are white but i do think there is having said that there is still a step in the industrial process that we never took and i think this happened in the 40's where we never sort of recognize our eletes, our political class was clear they were never going to let what happened in your shop where you have a working class movement, flyable working-class movement they were never going to let that happen. if you look at something like the taft hartley bill we talked about this in the book and about the union movement but if you look at that bell was meant and intended so that is one of the reasons we don't have the single payer health care because wherever you have single-payer healthcare you have a viable low-cost unions so i think you're right. reese is a huge component but it's more than that. i think it's the corruption of

house wants to do it, whether it was the bush white house or this white house. the pressure is on him. with britain and the ousting of the diplomat there -- >> it's been a bad week. britain, in case you didn't know this story, an israeli diplomat discovered that 12 british passports were forged in the assassination of a hamas leader in a dubai hotel. >> that's the thing we all had video of. >> by the way, talking of flashbacks, because it's still on my mind. this is exactly more or less what happened in 1996 when prime minister of israel fell out with bill clinton over settlements, guess what? a botched assassination, this time with forged canadian assets. >> to quote eecclesiastes, nothing new under the sun. explain why such a difficult predicament. he's got foreign issues but opponents at home driving him right. >> there's this pure proportion representation, which means anyone who gets a small number of votes can have the political party and make up the ruling coalition. the tiny little party holds the balance of power and controls the interior ministry. what

. >> larry: tonight, tv's "golden girls" sweetheart, betty white. a half million facebook fans helped land her a very special hosting gig. >> live from new york, it's "saturday night." >> larry: she's just signed to do a new tv series. >> i don't like you. >> larry: and she scores in a super bowl ad. >> you're playing like betty white out there. >> that's not what your girlfriend said. >> larry: what is the secret of betty white's long success? plus, exclusive, democratic representative dennis kucinich. >> i've taken a detour. >> larry: his first interview since announcing his flip on health care. why did he change his mind? and then, one of the all-time musical greats, aretha franklin, the queen of soul, joining us from the mandarin oriental hotel in washington. all next on "larry king live." comedienne, actress, tv's golden girl betty white is here with us. but before we speak with her we want to speak about the big news of the day -- and she's ticked she's not on before him. congressman dennis kucinich, democrat of ohio, he made headlines earlier

the white house is down playing that report but we're back with our panel. charles? is the great shrinking sanctions threat. as you said, starts with tripling that's a year ago in the summer. then last week as we heard from the secretary of state, sanctions that bite. and now today the spokesman spoke of sanctions that have significant pressure. and tomorrow it will be sanctions that pinch. this is the great shrinking sanctions. you know, the "wall street journal" headline today said that the sanctions in the u.n. are getting softer. how do you get softer than mush, thin soup, which is where we are now. look, to tell you how collapsed our policy is, the administration a couple of days ago was rejoicing over the fact that the chinese had daneed to pick up the phone and to join a conference call on discussions of these weak sanctions, which imply up to a week ago they weren't even talking about it. so what we're going to get here is nothing of importance. the two that would have had influence, the shutting them out of the world banking system is off the table now. and

mike viqueira at the white house.resident and white house already had a plan it launched this year but one that has not been successful so far. >> hasn't worked out. you're absolutely right. in the face of still high unemployment and still sinking rate of the value of many people's homes around the country particularly in hard hit areas, for example, las vegas, southern california, phoenix area where they have seen home prices plummet. what is the administration doing, coming out and offering more or less incentives for lenders to help people under water with mortgage or out of a job, to help them incentivize writing down mortgages until people figure a way out u for those unemployment, help them lower mortgage, lower monthly payment or eliminate their monthly payment for a period of three to six months. for those under water in their homes, those making payments or struggling, but the value of their home is lower than the mortgage on the house. offering incentives to get together with borrowers to write that down. al

the white house doesn't entirely buy into the narrative that it was she who led the white house to come around to her way of thinking. >> okay. let's go to karl cameron. we are over 200 votes. at 200 votes affirmative and 180. 201 to 180 this is the senate bill. they have to fix it in the senate. reconciliation vote comes after an effort to recommit which is essentially throw the whole thing out. there is worry by democrats the senate will get that far and do all of these fixes isn't that true? >> there's also concern they may decide to tweak it and bring it back to the house and more opportunity to obstruct and delay. it is an opportunity to stop a disaster from happening in the country. we heard one lawmaker say it was a complete repudiation to the constitution. they are stopping at nothing to say with 23 democrats still having not voted they could essentially take only 11, 12, 13 of them and leave them to vote against this. one way to look at this is the democratic majority simply has to maintain all of the 37 members. they can't lose 38. that's the bottom line. doesn't look like tha

they've descended to shout opposition and we'll begin at the white house. wendell. >> there is no celebrating, but white house officials point out that each no vote that changes to yes and the optimism officials felt as nancy pelosi's promise to deliver the goods as you say the president heads to the capitol with some democrats showing they have the 216 to pass the senate reform bill in the house and perhaps without the deem and pass measure, parliamentary maneuver that republicans objected to so very strongly. yesterday at a campaign style event at a nearby college. the president rallied a friendly audience as he tried to close the deal with lawmakers and he said the issue is not the costs or the growth of government or the

if one presents itself, the white house will get on board and declare its support. we saw in health care there were great delays. we saul some of the drawbacks of this strategy. i wonder if you can comment. would you like to see a different approach when it comes to immigration? >> sure. but you know what? i want to see an approach. that's whalely what's been lacking here. there's no game plan. there is no approach. there's no setting goals and objectives, really. there is really a lack here -- there's nothing really going on. that's overstating it. it's like start, stop, start, stop. we never quite finish. so, look, i'm looking forward. i am happy that senator shumer and senator lindsey graham are working together. i was delighted to see their blueprint. is it far from legislative? sure. but the majority leader reid has said he will put time on the senate floor. i know that chairman lay hi is looking forward to seeing the bill so that he can call for those markups. and what i'm saying to my party, the democrats here today, what we're saying to them is chair man lay

and that angered a lot of people at the white house again. and then the next day when he went in for his meeting with president obama, an hour before the meeting started, there was another announcement of more housing construction in east jerusalem. and i think that's just the combination of, you know, keeps ramping up like that. and you just saw that all collide. and it's been really surprising now. because everybody sort of expected that after sort of laying down how the u.s. felt about it, the obama administration would then drop back. and, you know -- gwen: not happening. >> and that's not happening. >> that makes me want to ask, does president obama believe that prime minister netanyahu can make peace, that he is a man who could deliver this? >> in many ways, that's exactly what all of this is about. i don't know the answer to that question, but i can certainly say with some -- i definitely think that president obama does not know for sure that he is. gwen: can i ask one question? since you were on that trip, did you get some sense of th

secondly, the white house is pulling out all the stops.ng a former president showing that president obama is literally pulling out all the stops to make sure this gets done tomorrow when the house votes on it. >> some people might question that choice because former president bill clinton took on health care unsuccessfully. do you think this is going to help? will people give their vote to him? he couldn't get it done. >> it's a good question. it remains to be seen. let's face it, he is a very popular figure in the democratic party. an interesting side note is one of my democratic sources was pointing out there was some thought that hillary clinton, the secretary of state, might be able to help on this. but democratic officials point out as secretary of state it is awkward to get involved in domestic politics. that is part of the reason why instead of using the former new york senator the white house basically reached out to the former president. you are right. it could be difficult because he is somebody who tried and failed, but on the o

house and the social events and bringing american culture into the white house and connecting the white house with the people was really extraordinary and great and should be commended for that and it has been an exciting year, for them with all of the events they've had at the white house and she did all of those parts of her social secretary job really, really well and now, she did one thing really poorly and it cost her her job, in large part. >> chris: let me ask you about that, because you hear in all of the accounts, that the knives were out for her, in the west wing, beyond just this one event. >> she has a very high profile, definitely had a high profile. generally, social secretaries, should be, you know, in the background, never, as in the front as this firsts lady and she was an unusual pick in the first place, she was a big corporate executive and powerhouse on the chicago scene before she came but i think it is the -- if the salahi incident wouldn't have happened the knives could have been out but wouldn't have made any difference. >> chris: what washington is really buzzin

east -- prime minister netanyahu spent more than three hours at the white house yesterday.o press conference was allowed so the prime minister's limousine which pull back at one point must suffice to pharbgt time. netanyahu's first meeting with president obama, 90 minutes long, didn't clear the air. >> prime minister netanyahu remained in the white house and consulted with his staff in the roosevelt room. then requested to see the president again and they returned to the oval at about 8:20 and met for a little more than half an hour. >> reporter: mr. obama's middle east envoy mitchell met with top officials at the white house until 12:30 this morning. the white house refused to discuss the substance of the talks, also refused to call them negotiations. >> president has asked the prime minister for certain things to build confidence leading up to proximity talks that we think can make progress. >> reporter: the current flashpoint israeli plans to expand jewish settlements in east jerusalem. the president opposes it he fears that could consult peace talks with the palestinian

house, these people are invited by the white house to come to the white house.they will give a list of people who have been invited and accept that we will do name checks on these individuals so again it's a very important part of the partnership. from that invitation list is generated and in the system we have in place is that we and the white house staff will work together as partners at each checkpoint to ensure those individuals who have been invited do get and if somebody isn't on that list again that is working with white house staff we will determine if in fact they should be on the list. if they should be on the left and they haven't been named checked we will name check them and then those people will be allowed to enter the white house. as far as the state department, we have a very healthy and longstanding relationship with the state department, i'm sorry, with the state department. we have a longstanding partnership with them on this particular night. we did not have the list. we have since modified that so that we and the state department are workin

>> do i hate white folks, is that your question? do all black people hate whites?et me put your mind at rest, you bet we do. >> the human condition is such, we as human beings are most comfortable, black men get together and say you know how women are. black women get together you know how the men are so it's usually one race or one sex of one race talking about the other but the interdialogue is what's so difficult. what do you think, what do you believe about me, tell me and let's discuss that. that's the difficulty. >> let me take a break, we'll be back with more right after this. >> you don't see people going, you pass that like a black man. no, he passed it like a president 37. ♪ i'm up at five 'cause morning's arrived ♪ ♪ and i'm feelin' alive 'cause i'm makin' it ♪ ♪ the new dollar menu at breakfast is impressive ♪ ♪ i can be selective i'm makin' it ♪ ♪ uh, you know the deal, create your own meal ♪ ♪ at a buck it's a steal i'm making it ♪ ♪ ha, coffee or hash brown, i'm down, or i can kick it ♪ ♪ with a sausage biscuit or burrito ♪ ♪ 'cause there's one thing

he had a gun and used it to kill white before turning the weapon on himself. at the first sign of danger police say ta northeasta white's 12-year-old daughter gathered all of of the children in the day care and took them into a bathroom where she dialed 911. up until a year ago neighbors say richard nickels and taneitha white were neighbors. that's when she left her husband and moved a few blocks away into the house on roundtree drive where the shooting took place. it's unclear what relationship the two may have had. neighbor who's know the family had nothing but high praise for white's daughter who tried to protect the children and called 911. >> i am so glad she kept her wits about her. she's such a smart kid anyway and she was very -- she was brave. that's all i could say about it because i don't know what i would have done in that same situation. >> reporter: once the police secured the scene just after 7:00 this morning, they moved the children out of the basement and they took them to police headquarters over on cardinal drive. that's where the police th

let me ask you about the white house's attitude.nths. this white house depressed after scott brown's victory. tell us about how -- what it was like being there yesterday. it had to be an almost joyous festive atmosphere there. >> beyond. i think i saw at least one of the inner circle every day, whether it was rahm or axelrod or gibbs, and they are -- they are definitely walking on maybe not cloud nine but let's say it's cloud seven. >> they're walking on sunshine. >> exactly. and they're feeling pretty good about it. and i wonder how that carried over, frankly, into the -- cockiness is not the right word but they have a bounce in their step. gives them a renewed sense of going -- feeling better about dealing with netanyahu on israel. it gives them an injection of confidence to deal with other tough issues. >> that's good because anybody that knows barack obama knows one thing he's lacked his entire life is confidence. so there's a positive development, mike barnicle. >> chuck n one of the polls we showed, you can see the spike upwar

white, unique to pick one or the other. so houston and white take education. charles hamilton houston was a graduate of amherst college in washington d.c., graduated from amherst at the age of 19, serves in the army and went on to arbor bosque will and he was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of judicial science from harvard, studied into paying what he why he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high-profile sensational murder defendant, out in rural virginia. he is widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. he wanted to attack segregation in the way that it works with the successful. the law of the land at the time was plessy versus ferguson, the 19th century supreme court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal. and those words never appeared in the decisions to be sure, but the law was that the longest states, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and

bush white house. he was big on the purell at the white house. watch this play out a little bit. >> can we do that one more time? is there any way to bring that back and show that one more time? >> he shakes hands, he obviously doesn't like the touch. there's president clinton, thank you very much. >> republicans are still smearing bill clinton, to this day. you got nothing to say to that. >> it was like a pine tar moment almost. >> they're getting along nicely now. we'll see if that causes a rift. >> he's going to send him the dry cleaning bill. >> that would be smart. good for him. up next pete on the street has a question with health care reform battle almost over, what's congress going to fight over now? is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. introducing quattron quad pixel technology. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors you can't see with your tv's three color technology. but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to se

white fourth graders on average scored 230 on a 500 point scale. hispanics and blacks scored 205, almost the same figures from the last time the tests were given. today's report focuses more criticism on the landmark "no child left behind law," with some experts charging there's been too much testing and not enough teaching despite the billions of dollars spent on the program. >> i think part of it is an obsession with tests. students need to love to read. >> reporter: yet contrary to the national trend, some states have shown progress. in the nation's capital where students have been among the worst readers, principal jamal wright says their scores jumped 10%. >> we specifically target those kids not reading on grade level and work with them and provide interventions for them. >> reporter: tonight, more proof america's schools have to work more on the fundamentals to get a better report card. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> now to news on the housing markets. still struggling badly, even though the government has made a huge effort to prop i

this is "white house chronicle," toasted by linda gasparello. there is a hindi word that came into the language. some words stock and some words just went away, those particularly inc. from french. some state and some did not. do you have any thoughts about that? >> there are many words were shakespeare either created them himself or they were words that he was hearing on the street. fireworks -- before then they were pyrotechnics. there is no such word as road, and that was coined by shakespeare. when it comes to drug, if you're not paying attention, he would -- when it comes to drunk, if you are not paying attention, he would talk about someone coming into the room with the sun in his eyes. what he is talking about is the person is plastered. and chaucer had a lot. one of the interesting things about the drunk thing, the people who made the lists are classic. the first one who made a list was benjamin franklin, who came up with 227 words. then dickens had a list. they are all ahead of their time. >> i can imagine that. >> i have always liked t

white house will put out. he's on the white house payroll. cnn has made the decision that we're not going to use the photo from the white house. this was an event that we believe should have been open to camera. that was closed press. last night the israeli prime minister was here. that was closed to cameras as well. this administration has spoken a lot about transparency. we believe in this case the cameras should have been in. >> i have a rare interview with rahm emanuel at the white house tomorrow. i'll ask him about it. ed henry, standby. more to discuss later on what's going on with u.s. and israeli relations. right now, though, some members of congress as we've been reporting are living in fear about the security of their staff, their families and themselves on this day after health care reform became the law of the land, we're learning more about vandalism and threats against democrats who voted for health care reform. house democrats called an urgent meeting with security officials today to discuss the

>> rodriguez: chip reid at the white house tonight. thank you, chip.now to afghanistan where the war is taking the lives of more and more civilians. and today, the united nations demanded they get better protection. more than 2,000 civilians were killed last year, the most since the war began. while the vast majority of those deaths are blamed on insurgents, one out of four was caused by u.s.-led nato forces and so to try to reduce civilian casualties, the u.s. military is bringing an old tactic. david martin climbs into the cockpit to show you in this exclusive "eye on the military." >> reporter: a navy jet pitchs into a dive on a strafing run at a training range in north carolina. short bursts and a hail of bullets. the pilot pulls out of his dive at 2,000 feet. a sharp turn creating a force six times that of gravity. pilots call it pulling gs. to me in the backseat, it feels like being crushed. but the worst of it only lasts for about five seconds. >> it mashes you pretty good but it beats the alternative, which is running into the ground. strafing,

half white himself. and beyond that rush limbaugh speaking about this is one -- americans thinking this is one criminal act especially african-americans, black people have been the most patriotic americans in this nation. going off to war to defend rights that they could not enjoy back home. the confederates of this country tried to secede from the nation. many conservatives embrace a flag that is not america ultimately. we have died for this flag. we've raised it high. we have touted the virtues of america. james baldwin said this. i love america more than any nation on this earth. that's why i reserve the right to criticize her perpetually. we believe love is investment in the critical opposition to platforms and parties and principles that we think are destructive but we don't have to demonize each other. michelle bernard is obviously a brilliant woman. she has a position. i have a position. we don't have to demonize each other to disagree. mr. limbaugh is fomenting these things and i think the conser

white, you need to pick one or the other. so, mr. houston -- so houston and white picked education. charles hamilton houston graduate of amhearst college, graduated at the age of 19, served in the army and went on to harvard law school. he was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of judicial science from harvard studied in spain while he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high profile sensational murder defendant in rural virginia who is widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. the law was plessy verse ferguson. established the doctrine. the decision to be sure, the law was that, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for white americans, the constitution is satisfied. houston cannot walk into court and ask a district court judge to overturn separate but equal. it would not work. a district court judge first of all does not have the authority to do so. secondly, it was the way the individuals li

it's not so black and white like people would like to think it is.here are not good guys necessarily and the bad guys on the simplest of levels. it's a very gray area where you have cartel, la linea which has operated in juarez for years. these narcos, these narco traffic kantes, they went to schooling and the and drank in the same bars. when we saw the sinaloa cartel move into the juarez area and we saw the mexican military, about 10,000 troops enter juarez, that's when the violence started picking up a lot since 2008, in the last two years. >> and what is the fight? you mentioned two cartels here. repeat those names again and what is the fight over? clearly, the spoils of the drug trade, but it's also for territory and a strip of land in particular. >> that strip of land is called the juarez plaza. it's a strip of drug trafficking corridor that goes directly into the united states. there's two cartels battling for that along with some of the proxies and local gangs and street-level gangs that they use to outsource their violence. one of the cartels

>> yeah. >> do you like the white house? >> yeah! >> who wouldn't like a trip to the white house? odds are some of these little citizens will get to go. the news came from arne duncan. in the basket a tough ticket. gentleman the president and secretary duncan have decided to give 1200 tick its, that means 1,200 tickets for the white house easter egg roll to children in washington, d.c.! >> reporter: when you walk in the door here at wilson elementary, one of the first things you see, this bulletin board. take a look. this shows the improvements in test scores. it is one of the ropes the school was chosen. >> a study a lot. i study reading, math. i study french. >> we are here because you are working so hard and doing such a great job. >> we will play our math game. i hope can you see it. >> reporter: together, wilson's reading and maghtd -- math scores are up 18%. >> each princual will choose which kids get the tickets. why do you think you should get to go? >> because i do good in my class and i know how to complete i my work. >> it would be nice for us to go because some of us n

a big day at the white house. obama's -- president obama's probably lucky in another way that health care is going to overwhelm the story of the israeli problems with the prime minister, who is not backing down. >> remember, he was coming here any way. the original schedule just a week ago, we were going to be in jakarta today, so you know, it's not as if this is a snub. the president did at least add this meeting on his schedule when he knew he was going to be in town. >> well, i'm sure the independe not happy about the president not being there. join chuck and savannah everybody morning at 9:00 a.m. >>> and the health care fight moves to the senate now, setting up one big battle. we'll speak with tom daschle. also today, tim geithner calling for an overhaul of the nation's mortgage system. time to end the ambiguity over the government's involvement fannie and freddie. a car & driver 10best for the third year in a row. ♪ with a direct injection v6 engine. see your cadillac dealer soon, because while there is no e

when is the last time he's been in the white house?ny times in recent weeks. >> neil: so i'm making a big deal outs of nothing. you're very tight. >> come now, don't lead me down the primrose path. we're tight ownership on things we need to be tight on. we're looking at climate issues, very engaged in education and working on infrastructure. but this is a political operation. >> neil: tom, i'm saying you're blocking. i think you're blocking. >> you may think i'm blocking. i think we're working it in a way that's going to let us keep going longer, further and better. >> neil: it's always a pleasure. thank you very much. i love having you on. >> well, it's good to see you. i'll be up soon. >> neil: thank you. >>> a quick programming note. we're headed back to washington. the healthcare battle continues and we're live there friday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. coverage at 6:00 p.m. on the "fox business." if you don't get that. >> demand it? >> indeed. saturday a two-hour special of the cost of freedom kicking off at 10:00 a.m. eastern where the q

melody barnes, the president's domestic policy adviser at the white house. melody, what is the urge ency here? i know it's $900 million for the 5,000 most at-risk schools. that's not in massive education terms a huge amount of money. what does he hope to achieve? >> as you say, this is a critical moment. every single day there's about 7,000 students who drop out of school. that's about 1.2 million students every year. perhaps there was a time when you could leave high school and make sure that you had a secure, economic future. but we know today isn't that time. so we have to do something about it. we have to turn this around. in the stimulus bill, the president actually worked to make sure we have tools that we can hand over to states and to local districts to make sure that they can work with their students, work with their schools to try and turn this around. so, we're supporting them in that way. in fact, you've probably heard about actions that were recently taken at central falls in rhode island, where we -- the local unions were working and talking to

so they would organize on white campuses. and they had a south white organization. i knew all of them at that time. yeah, i think they had that feeling. there was, of course, on the other side i'm sure andy mentions in his book that amongst the several civil rights organizations, the corps, sclac and naacp there were lots of them in all this time. there's lots of jealousies and they all came together and it was really critical. >> this presentation has focused primarily on the active resistance such as the sit-ins which came in a large part after the inactive or passive resistance such as the bicycles. -- boycotts. was it chance timing as made the sit-ins as effective as they were? >> repeat your question. i didn't hear what you said, i'm sure. the last part. >> do you think it was the combined efforts of both the active and inactive resistance or simply the chance timing when the sit-ins came that made the sit-ins so effective? >> i'm sure. i'm deaf in one ear. let me turn this ear and say it again. >> do you think it was the combined efforts of both types of resis

that is what the white house is planning from now on?ah, i think with the campaign season officially started, we're going to see that. and i do know i have a lot of friends in iowa and the iowa gop and they are looking forward to this visit, too, because they'll be raising a lot of money and actively trying to stop tad's called the president's momentum. i think this will be an interesting visit. we'll see how many people are energized on both sides and i think on the republican side people are very energized. i was at a dinner last night and they are really excited about their prospects in november. >> what about that, tad? is it time for the president to stop? i mean, he's got to explain what's in health care and try to stop the demonization of the bill from his perspective but at the same time he needs to talk about jobs. he's got to talk about the economy. people are pretty much fed up with this. >> well, i think he does have to talk about the economy and i think it has to be his focus between now and november, but there's a lot of go

she says she wrote us after she wrote the white house. have suggested the white house had better get a reign on the vp. the vp has done this before and to be quiet honest, too often. i personally am tired of hearing he has made yet another crude mistake with his mouth, enough is enough. first of all, i would ask how the white house could get a reign on something that the vice president himself obviously has trouble controlling, but secondly, the most interesting thing about this story to me was that the white house obviously doesn't seem to think biden's curse word was a gasp and remember when the vice president dick cheney used the same word, but aimed it as a u.s. senator? not many people cared then either. sure, there used to be words you would use, but now tell me, exactly where is that polite society? send your answers to that question to mcginty's mail bag. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. that is our report. i'll be back here tonight. we'll see you monday at 7:00. as for later tonight, i'll be right back here with anita brikman at