. >> you whittle? >> jon: i whittle. is that what the kids are calling it these days?> that's what i used to call it. >> jon: let's say, jennifer, hold on a second and i got let's say a table saw and i just started moiking you a cabinet. >> i would really appreciate that. >> jon: is that true? >> yes. >> jon: you know i made my children's changing table. >> you did. >> jon: i figured at that age they're not going to remember the splinters. >> no. >> jon: but i did make it. it was quite good. >> i bet it was. >> jon: very kind of you to say that. it's a very funny movie. it's in the theaters on july 8. >> july 8. >> jon: it's going to be apparently huge. >> let's hope. very funny movie. >> jon: it is a very funny movie and you're very funny in it. >> thank you. >> jon: you're welcome. now i'd like to play your song. ladies and gentlemen, jennifer aniston. ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: that's our show. join us tomorrow night i believe at 11:00. luis c.k.will be in the studio with us. unfortunately you people will not. here it is your moment of z

there are still several out there, but it has whittled down to two key bills. they both do relatively the same thing. the reorganized the high-speed rail authority function within state government. the first is a.b. 145 found on page 3. we have a watch position on this one. it would create a department of high-speed trains and transfer the functions of the high-speed rail authority. it would retain authority for political guidance, said the structure would be similar in concept to caltrans and ctc. s.b. 517 by senator lowenthal, page 22 of the matrix, simply places the high-speed rail authority under the secretary of transportation and then in both cases, both bills, dissolves the authority board, requiring new appointments by the speaker pro tem and the governor, the governor appointees to be subject to senate confirmation, which they were not previously. in both cases, they require that the members have certain expertise -- lock, financing, high-speed -- a list of expertise. my only political observation is the legislature is intent on reforming the authority

and this is one of the whittling events.t he had a terrible showing that might endanger the future of his candidacy. they're counting on coming in in the top three with m michele bachmann and ron paul. we'll see if they can pull it off. >> checking with all the campaign, thanks very much, john harwood. checking in with all of the campaigns. cnbc's chief washington correspondent, all around iowa. fun to follow and track. >>> all right. here we go. coming up, it's the age-old question since the watergate days. what did rupert murdoch know and when did he know it? that's going to be what the british parliament wants to find out. the media mogul, his son and former editor of "news of the world" all set to testify this morning. this ain't a congressional testimony. a little different. we're expecting that hearing to begin any moment and we'll bring it to you live when it happens. >>> this is the "daily rundown" on msnbc. s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing mio. a revolutionary water enhancer. add a little..

and the golden gate bridge whittle see any problems on the southbound 101 commute. >> changes in the carpool lanes and those hybrid cars that had a special stickers the solo drivers they have expired knocking return to one of our reporters from the bay bridge >> could morning now violators anyone that did use those yellow stickers you have been warned you 30 days ago they would expire yesterday you can no longer drive by yourself for the toll plaza on a car pulling if you drive through here make sure you have more than one person so far so good no one has done that so far. it is upon the officer whether they're going to enforce that are not. it's a form letter and $31 ticket don't deploy preparing there is another stickers available and that is a white sticker we have a list of the current colors that are available. those guerrillas of the cars it will be available to go through the carpool lane preparing their is no limit to how many they are going to give out cannot use the yellow stickers anymore. >> they say the chevy bolt is missing from the list >> it does not live up to the re

that work force has been whittled down over the last couple of years. it's down to 6,000 now. et that force is going to be cut in half within the next couple of weeks and within a year there will only be a few hundred people left working on the museum displays as you talked about and wrapping up the program. it's the end of the line for the shuttle and the people who worked on it. >> we know the u.s. will have to depend on russia to put human beings in space. will russia be in charge of training will the u.s. continue to train. >> they'll continue to train the u.s. and russian astronauts. that will continue. but the training for launch to ride on russian so i use rockets, that will happen in russia. nasa is going to be paying about $60 million a seat for astron t astronauts to ride on the russian so i use until new commercial aircraft can be developmented. >> this has to be a bittersweet moment for you, bill, watching every launch and landing. what memories will stay with you. >> well, 27 years actually. it's been a long time, as you same. i think my strongest memories, it goe

boehner said he's going to work with the leaders of the senate so the president has let that process whittle on. we've seen proposals announced today and so the president wants to gelt back into the game. he's the president of the united states. i'm not defending his leadership style. but he does have a vote here. and no deal is going get done without his approveal. >> greta: peter, thank you. >> nice to see you. >> and no, thank you. >> greta: coming up... what does republican senator cobrn member of the gang of six think about the proposal? and ever heard a passage thank the lord for his smoking hot wife? there is a first time for everything. this is just the beginning. you h >> greta: we spoke today with oklahoma senator coburn a republican member of the gang of six. senator, nice to see you, sir. >> good to see you. >> greta: we have three plans, gang of six, speaker boehner and now, senate majority leader harry reid. your thoughts on where we're going? >> well, we right now we have dualing bills from the majority leader in the senate and speaker of the house. i don't know where it's goi

boehner said he's going to work with the leaders of the senate so the president has let that process whittle on. we've seen proposals announced today and so the president wants to gelt back into the game. he's the president of the united states. i'm not defending his leadership style. but he does have a vote here. and no deal is going get done without his approveal. >> greta: peter, thank you. >> nice to see you. >> and no, thank you. >> greta: coming up... what does republican senator cobrn member of the gang of six think about the proposal? and ever heard a passage thank the lord for his smoking hot wife? there is a first time for everything. this is just the beginning. you h@@ >> greta: we spoke today with oklahoma senator coburn a republican member of the gang of six. senator, nice to see you, sir. >> good to see you. >> greta: we have three plans, gang of six, speaker boehner and now, senate majority leader harry reid. your thoughts on where we're going? >> well, we right now we have dualing bills from the majority leader in the senate and speaker of the house. i don't know where it's g

senate says that it won't pass now the public plan republican plan has gone down to deficit cuts whittled down to just nine hundred billion dollars over ten years nine hundred billion pretty wimpy compared to the fourteen trillion dollar debt nonetheless the eleventh hour deal making or the lack of it continues the u.s. further towards this scary default deadline so now everyone's wondering if come tuesday washington hasn't gotten this figured out who's going to get paid conventional wisdom seems to think that it's investors first and on top of that predictions abound over whether a downgrade to the u.s. is aaa credit rating is coming on tuesday and how markets the world over will react to that well here to help us understand all of this is joe weisenthal he's deputy editor of the business insider and it's so nice to see you. thanks for having me so first of all as i just pointed out minute ago and as you pointed out and you're writing the track record of these ratings agencies isn't exactly stellar do you think that means that if the u.s. gets downgraded it won't be armageddon. well no i

this debt and this deficit we've got to grow ourselves out of this thing we can't just cut cut cut whittle away on the american dream is to wrong direction so thank you for giving us an opportunity to talk about it you're one of the few why i'm just curious you know i think maybe the reason why every one of the few that actually allow to talk about this is because again we go back to that sense of messaging and what you hear from our public. is this obviously there's a general distaste towards taxes in america and so you automatically hear that these are socialist policies that this is wealth redistribution if you expect the rich to pay for the poor how do you battle those claims and try to explain to people that this is what needs to happen if we want to increase our revenue you know the way i was raised to much is given much is expected you know in my view in any decent society would not let a member of the languish in poverty particularly if their senior citizen or a or a child or a person with a disability or this is who is on social security medicare medicaid these are the people who

n not whittle away the american dream.rt d should be allowed to negotiate drug prices. we should make sure we get the most for the medicare dollar. i think we shouldn't be looking at trying to disadvantage seniors and making them pay the cost of two wars, tax breaks for the wealthiest americans and a lot of wasteful spending, in my opinion that's taking place over the last 10 to 12 years. the seniors didn't do it. they gave us a great america, yet we are trying to make them pay for mistakes that happen. >> i don't know if that's fair. is that what's happening? >> i think it is. >> can anyone say today's seniors are going to be impacted greatly and tremendously by what the white house is putting forward? >> nobody is paying for the wars. the question for the congressman is we have this massive debt. i'm not sure i understood how you would close the gab. what would be your proposal to deal with the deficit? >> let's start with clinton tax rates. this is a time america was very prosperous. get us out of the wars at an acceler

that is whittled down by the way because one of the rules of nato is made by unanimity and to making decisions with 300 committees i don't know if anyone is the chairman can handle that kind of a crowd. to see where nato has expanded to going through 1999 where they make the decision in washington to go anywhere in the world to fight a and we go along and i want to short circuit this but i want to bring you to 9/11 in which has the first description of the first and account but here we are 9/11 hood treaty that set up had a number of articles and article five israel key instrument that basically says in an attack on any member of nato is considered an attack on all. it is the key article connecting to the defense of europe. it was flat on their backs. the only way to defend europe was with america. that is what this article did. after 9/11, the very next day nato got together and decided to invoke article five which had never been invoked before. to say we go to war with america our leader is an attack on all of us. but that story in itself is interesting. you should buy the book jus

by whittling down the deficits and having sound budget principles. this $2.7 trillion would be the largest debt ceiling increase in the history of america. the previous largest debt limit increase was $1.9 trillion which president obama signed into law in february of last year. this debt ceiling increase in senator reid's proposal is not paid for. it offers $1 trillion i cuts for a $2.7 trillion increase. many of those cuts are illusory. they are not cuts that can be counted. to say that we're going to label $1 trillion of cuts savings from leaving afghanistan and iraq is just not credible. we don't know what the obstacles are going to be in afghanistan and possibly iraq. we also don't know what we might have to do in the middle east going forward. afghanistan is not settled, mr. president, and we have to have a certain level of stability on the ground in afghanistan or we will have wasted the billions that we have already spent and the lives of our military personnel in afghanistan because it will go back to the way it was before, a center for terro

. >> is there a way to whittle it down to a single thing that has been the most damaging to make the educational system today worse than you when i were in it? >> it's the failure to innovate. what we have done is kept the same system of education since eventually i went to school back 54 years ago. the way school looked, the way school taught kids, the lengths of the school day and the length of the school year is basically the same, even though we know our young people are facing a much more challenging environment. so we have to allow schools to innovate, and instead we fight every innovation. >> wave your magic wand and tell me what you most want to see. is an 11-month school year, or longer school days, or more parental involvement, if i could have this -- >> i would like our teachers and the school leaders, like the professional they are. every other profession, you get trained and then you figure out what you need to do to be successful. we run schools like factories, where we have folks how many minutes you have for class time, and you say you can do these kinds of things or

boehner said he's going to work with the leaders of the senate so the president has let that process whittleosals announced today and so the president wants to gelt back into the game. he's the president of the united states. i'm not defending his leadership style. but he does have a vote here. and no deal is going get done without his approveal. >> greta: peter, thank you. >> nice to see you. >> and no, thank you. >> greta: coming up... what does republican senator cobrn member of the gang of six think about the proposal? and ever heard a passage thank the lord for his smoking hot wife? there is a first time for everything. this is just the beginning. you have to hear this. the 3.6-liter v6 engine of the jeep grand cherokee has a best-in-class driving range of over 500 miles per tank. so you can catch morning tee time in pebble beach and the afternoon meeting in losngeles all without running out of gas. st make sure you don't run out of gas. ♪ the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk wi

that is being whittled down, by the way, because one of the rules and nato is unanimity. making decisions with 300 committees, i don't know if anyone but the chairman can handle that kind of crowd. so we come to this stage where nato has expanded. let me go through to 1999. nader makes the decision in washington that they will now go anywhere in the world to fight. that is the new purpose of nato. this so-called out of area purpose. and we go along. i want to short circuit this because i want to leave some time for questions. i want to bring you to september 11th. my book has probably the first description of what was taking place at nato headquarters. a first and accounts. here we are. the new treaty, the treaty that set up nato has a number of articles, a very short treat. article five is of very key instruments. it basically says, an attack on any member will be considered an attack on all. and it was a key article, if you will, that connected america to the defense of europe. europe at that time was flat. flat on their backs. they did not have the money. they knew the

. >> whittled down to the bank roller versus it's true believe are and which appeal to the undecided voter will work? bring in the "hardball" strategists and experts democrats steve mcmahon and republican todd. you have a skidszoid, people who believe and those that pretend what they say they have. working for some businesses like merchandising, make a lie detector to see if you are trustworthy or not. should you do that to your candidates? does mitt romney really believe this tea party stuff, that michele bachmann really believes in her dream? you're laughing. is mitt romney the tea party stuff? >> i'm not sure he's trying to present hoimgs as a tea party -- he presents himself as a conservative, certainly. this is a classic battle that -- >> every republican primary. the movement conservative person and the more establishment person, but regardless of how it shakes out, when people are actually voting, this setup, this context could not be better for mitt romney. >> because -- >> because right now michele bachmann's presence is completely freezing out tim pawlenty and huntsman, the

the top two men resigned over questions about a former news of the world reporter and a whittle blowerd. stephan steph boanie gosk is covering t story. to the tangled web that may be the best way to describe this hacking scandal as the parties involved, murdoch's empire, government and the police all have ties one to another. it begins with rupert murdoch, the chief of news corporation, which includes the british any news international. his son james handles european operations for newscorp. on friday, les hidden resigned, he ran murdoch's dow jones and published the "wall street journal." rebekah brooks ran the tabloid news of the word and went on to she went on to run news international. she quit and was arrested yesterday. david cameron became prime minister. coolson later resigned from the prime minister's office over the hacking scandal. the prime minister is friends with rebecca brooks and james murdoch. a royals reporter named clive goodman hired a private investigator to hack the phones of aides to the royal family. scotland yard ran the investigation into the hacking and arres

the top two men resigned over questions about a former news of the world reporter and a whittle blower turned up dead. stephanie gosk is covering the story. michael wolff is author of the man who knows the news inside the secret world of rupert murdoch. to the tangled web that may be the best way to describe this hacking scandal as the parties involved, murdoch's empire, government and the police all have ties one to another. it begins with rupert murdoch, the chief of news corporation, and his son james who handles european news. on friday, les hidden resigned, he ran murdoch's dow jones and published the "wall street journal." rebekah brooks ran the tabloid news of the word and went on to run news international. she quit and was arrested yesterday. brooks' deputy at news of the world was andy colson who ran the paper when much of the hacking was going on. he resigned and became top aide for prime minister who he resigned over the hacking scandal. the prime minister is also friends with rebekah brooks and james murdoch. back to coulson. he employed clive goodman who hired a private in

he whittled it down to just millionaires, that was rejected. today he actually came out with a second option which is a cigarette tax increase. now, the republicans say any tax increase at all is a non-starter. >> woodruff: are they coming closer together or farther apart? what's your read on it? >> it actually seems like there's been steps backwards since the shutdown started. last week they were in intense negotiations behind closed doors. they were saying very little to the media. this week they're saying a lot to the media and the word today is "backwards." the republicans are not happy. dayton says that he's been misrepresented. there just doesn't seem like there's a cordial attitude going on right now and it makes it even less clear when the shutdown would end. >> woodruff: and, rachel, where's the public of minnesota? where are the citizens of the state on this? have you seen public opinion polls? >> we haven't done a public opinion poll. but, you know, i think there are a mix of reactions. first of all, there's a lot of frustration out

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. >> whittled it down to 13? >> wrote 77 songs.7 made the cut, did it not? >> the very last song was my very first single, believe it or not. it was one of the days i thought it was a throw-away song, and we cut it, it was great and my first single. >> how is the golf game? >> it's been better. >> you got another comeback song, not that you needed a comeback because you've never been gone. ladies and gentlemen, darius rucker. ♪ ♪ i woke up again this morning and wouldn't you know it, pouring rain ♪ ♪ so i went and burned a pot of coffee ♪ ♪ and like that i poured it down the drain ♪ ♪ cause i didn't know i needed you so and letting you go was wrong ♪ ♪ this is my bad come back song ♪ ♪ i know i said i wouldn't miss you, but now i'm saying i'm a fool, you're on the feel good side of leaving, and i'm the backside of a mule ♪ ♪ cause i didn't know i needed you so ♪ ♪ and letting you go was wrong ♪ and baby i know you got your radio on ♪ ♪ so this is my so sad come back song ♪ ♪ and now i'm laying down without you in this king size emp

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the legal consequence for him here in texas starts this week. 280 people whittled down to 12 jurors ton jeffs was here for a dedication ceremony for that temple back in january of 2005. that is the only flds temple in the u.s. and was believed to be the new headquarters. since then warren jeffs has been on the run, on the fbi's ten most wanted list, captured in las vegas, and now for the last five years in a jail cell. when testimony begins, will his followers show up for him in texas the way they did in utah? if not, what does that say about how loyal they still are to the man they call prophet? >> and tonight on ac 360 gary tuchman goes in depth and has the full story of warren jeffs. that's ac 360 tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern. 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. new ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five

. >> and its bid for white you whittle and gas industry? >> yes. >> to suggest the industry is getting off free i think is just not a good fact. >> i did suggest they were getting off free tv i asked a specific question with a rifle oil companies could afford it and could use the extra money and the answer to both of those questions is yes. >> it was more for my absent colleague. [laughter] so don't take offense to that if you would. let me see, i have 24 seconds. i have another question. how about this, will the department of interior -- >> the most significant thing we can do is get the personnel that will expedite the process. i know that when i've been here on prior occasions in front of other committees, the concern is to push the permits out as quickly as possible. now, we have to do more with respect to those permits than we ever did before to reach with the chairman says was the first priority, which is to improve safety. i completely agree with that. so that takes more time. it takes more resources. so in order to pick up the pace,

doug also whittled down his staff. when he came in, it was 30. by the time he left, they were down to nine and their service never suffered. another example of the sort of treasurer doug irand was. in the late 1970's, an elderly man came in the office to pay his tax bill and he pulled out a big bag of coins. he was literally counting his coins to pay his tax bill. doug went up to say hello to him and he noticed that the coins were all silver. mercury dimes and silver dollars. valuable collector's items. doug told the man his coins were worth more than their face value and he didn't just stop there. he arranged for a professional appraise afl thprofessional -- e coins. in the end, not only was the elderly man able to pay his tax bill, he took home a small nest egg. that's the kind of conscientious person and public servant doug irand is. in 1999, doug announced he was stepping down after 28 1/2 years as country treasurer. at that time, he was in a life-and-death struggle with smoking-related cancer and his prognosis wasn't very good. once again, d

by whittling down the deficits and having sound budget principles. this $2.7 trillion would be the largest debt ceiling increase in the history of america. the previous largest debt limit increase was $1.9 trillion which president obama signed into law in february of last year. this debt ceiling increase in senator reid's proposal is not paid for. it offers $1 trillion in cuts for a $2.7 trillion increase. many of those cuts are illusory. they are not cuts that can be counted. to say that we're going to label $1 trillion of cuts savings from leaving afghanistan and iraq is just not credible. we don't know what the obstacles are going to be in afghanistan and possibly iraq. we also don't know what we might have to do in the middle east going forward. afghanistan is not settled, mr. president, and we have to have a certain level of stability on the ground in afghanistan or we will have wasted the billions that we have already spent and the lives of our military personnel in afghanistan because it will go back to the way it was before, a center for terr