is this your thing, gavin, or was this willie? >> gavin started it. >> ok. you get the pen. >> i want to introduce our speaker, john perez. nothing happens in sacramento unless john says ok. he has been a powerful speaker, a great parter and a wonderful servant for the people of california. john perez. [applause] >> thank you, governor. i am the token non-mayor on the stage today. [laughter] it is great to be here with the governor as he signs this important piece of legislation into law. this is a crucial step in ensuring that we bring america's cup to san francisco. it is a prestigious event that will not only bring turrists and revenues to california, but will also add to the espirit did he corps to california. with some of the most beautiful coastlines in the united states, california is the natural home for the america's cup, and our state will be proud to host this event. i am proud of the work of my colleague, who brought this legislation forward, and i want to thank him for his efforts even though he couldn't be with us this afternoon. california tog

now, willie and i are your neighbors on the upper west side. hear this? so reverend al gets caught on the upper west side and they ask, what are you doing here? what do you say? >> visiting joe scarborough. >> exactly. who ever thought i'd be -- one of the thrills of the people there it's the lincoln center. >> amazing. >> you guys being a neighbor of the lincoln center i found out with my own children, you all have created this remarkable partnership with young people where you educate through art. you educate through music. >> it's magic. >> we have a total -- we reach a total of a million students who come to lincoln center or lincoln center comes to them in their schools. and lincoln center, itself, builds the arts into the curriculum across the curriculum and over 80 schools. our most recent initiative has been to get engaged in new charter schools and partnership with new visions. in fact, there are two new charter schools that are within three miles from here in the bronx where i live. so thanks for coming to my burough. >> you're welcom

>> willie brown. [ laughter ] >> could be.ing about former governor arnold schwarzenegger. he is releasing his new memoir next year. >> the working title, total recall: my unbelievably true life story. for more cbs 5 political insider phil matier, former san francisco mayor willie brown, they are deep in it already. guys? it's all yours. >> it's not. good morning. good morning. hold it. >>> all right, so, total recall, schwarzenegger, he is releasing a new book. he is speaking in front of the united nations or he has already spoke about big green energy. he is trying to make a comeback. so we have one of his chief advisors with us. is he serious? >> chief advisors? describe me differently, will you not? >> you're one of the three people on the planet that actually defended him when he got into trouble with his wife, with the illegitimate son and everything else. >> i'm not sure i was depending him, phil. i think i was trying to put it in proper perspective. and that may or may not have been a defense. but he says that he is go

social security now is 66. >> let's use willie here. willie, give us an idea of what you want to see your life unfold as. give us a plan that you want to happen. then we'll ask jason how do you make that happen. >> well, i want to send my caught tore a good college and pay off my house -- daughter to a good college and pay off my house. me and my wife own our own business. we have a shop, a graphics company. we want to grow that business and see where it takes us. >> sounds like a noble goal for your future. how is he doing? >> what's important is he's taking charge of his financial future. he's starting his own profession. >> yes. >> yes. most people don't do that. second of all, saving for your children. 529 plans are probably the best way. you can start with a little. you can add a little no that. there is a program out there called you promise. you get at you promise card for free. go to the letter u promise.com. when you go shopping, anything that you buy that is sponsored by you, you get points back. that goes into the 529 plan an

>> willie, obviously, the republicans sense weakness. the president's relation with israel have not been good. and i have, again, on this show, i have been critical of the way the president has handled america's relationship with israelis over the past 2 1/2 years. and i think for good reason. i think the republicans are overreaching and they're stepping into something they should be stepping into at this particular time. >> they certainly see a political opening. but what rick perry said, richard, that the president is giving equal sympathy to the palestinians and israelis, is there any fairness in that statement? >> no, i think it's made clear that there will be veto. the administration has created problems for itself. the initial of the emphasis just on trying to stop israeli settlement activity. yet, there's irony, the detailed day-to-day security cooperation between the united states and israel has never been better, but the whole atmospherics of the peace process are not good. and that's what you're seeing. the outside perception i

willie and i have been talking about health for a long time. >> years. >> years, willie. the way, speaking of health, i mean the red sox. >> good transition. >> the heart's beating again. >> they're fine. >> they're not fine. >> we're going to politico. >> game four this weekend -- >> scary. >> scored like 134 runs. >> you have to score under 134 runs if he's pitching for you. >> all this in a minute. save it. save it. >> 111th pitcher in baseball history to get 200 wins. not that i'm counting. >> i am reading the twitter feed. i retweeted that. >> let's go to politico. what are we looking at today? >> understand, you know who -- >> mike allen. hello, mike allen. >>> hey, good morning, sunshine. >> oh, look at that. >> i love it. let me ask you quickly, mike, your take on last night's special election here in the queens, brooklyn, district of new york. >> well, it's a race that democrats never expected to be in trouble on and republicans never expected to take. over on 538, nate silver, the numbers guy said this could spell dire results for senate democrats next year. >>

. >> thanks, willie. the first e-mail is from jodie geist. >> oh, wait. >> i've been up most of the night worrying about your sister's wedding on saturday. i hope you take my mind off of it. >> mom, thanks for being awake. bill karins promises sun and only sun >> johnny writes, realizing i should have never eaten that huge bag of cotton candy before bed time. can you say sugar rush to the 25th power? >> what are you, 6 years old? i love our audience. "morning joe" starts right now. do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out and returned to the states? >> i think we ought to have a conversation. >> we're having that right now, governor. >> yes, sir. if you'll let me finish i'll finish this conversation. but the issue is, are there ways to move the states into social security for state employees or retirees? we did in the state of texas back in the 1980s. i think those types of thoughtful conversations with america, rather

going against the yankees. >> listen to this last night, here's the storybook, willie. we'll do sports. a catcher from yale, third string, hits a home run, third string catcher -- just may have saved the red sox season. >> they go to the playoffs, his name might be a little piece of red sox history. pitchers and catchers report eight months ago, it comes down to one day here. >> it is -- >> you're not worried? >> i'm not worried. >> you should be worried. >> i love them. >> jim cramer, this is a nightmare. for small business owners -- >> health insurance goes up 9%. of course, everybody's blaming everybody. the insurers are blaming obama's health care plan, the democrats are blaming the health care insurers. all i know is this, if you're a small business owner, health care goes up 10% during the great recession, you're either going to stop hiring people, or you're going to shut it down. >> any other plans that have come out to make it so people want to hire. every one of the health care analysts on wall street told you raising numbers dramatically on these companies bec

geri willis, host of the willis report and sandra smith.ester been all over the report this week. fox has been talking about it a lot. start with the grade. geri, how do you grade the obama administration handling of solyndra. >> f minus. >> mike: that is not good. what did they mess up so badly? >> i think it is like a crystalis of what is wrong with the administration. they pushed the deal through because they wanted to hold a press conference showing off the decision. they are more concerned with the style, not the substance. the sizzle, not the steak. and secondly, they don't know anything about business and this case shows this in spades. the company, the whole industry is changing dramatically. they didn't seem to know that or understand the technology that solyndra was promoting. at the end of the day the company was in big trouble and they ignored all the warning signs. full speed ahead. f minus for me. >> mike: do i get a little more mercy in your classroom? >> no, failing grade here. there was no bright side to this entire situati

let's go to his desk, willie geist. americans when you were broke back americans reached out and americans are once again coming through with the can do spirit. >> to those, joe, who say the sun is setting on the americans, i offer you this. out of the goodness of her heart, a viewer named elizabeth heard of my troubles and said sit on this and all your cares will go away. >> it's a tush cushion of some kind. >> you have been bombarded with -- >> is it better than -- >> it's better than the inflatable, actually. >> well now. >> this reminds me of world war ii. women in the factories ripping up railroad tracks. >> whatever it takes. >> whatever it takes. >> speaking about the debate, let's go to mark halperin who seems to be in one piece after last night's debate. rick perry didn't accidentally try to shoot a coyote. >> last night, very interesting. i have to say, well i'm not going to say what most people are saying. i'm going to ask you what you are saying. who won the debate? >> i think mitt romney was the strongest.

willie geist?ublic workers their due. >> thanks for coming on the show. >> how's steven doing? can we get him on the show. >> fine. he works until 5:00 a.m. >> he's an overnight. >> we're going to go to russia. >> what's the future of islam in america in a post bin laden world. we're going to talk to irshad manji next on "morning joe." >> all right, guys. i have to figure out how to get you all thinking straight here. joining us now -- we need to have a talk about food. >> joining us right now. >> i'm going to write a book. >> joining us now, the director -- >> we have somebody who has written a book. why do you have to write a book? >> the director of "the moral courage project" irshad manji, the author of the new book, allah, liberty and love. we're glad to have you back on. it's great to have. >> you thank you. i'll bring the food book next time. >> i'm going to write one. me and my friend diane smith. >> i'll be the tester of the recipes. >> there will be an action plan in the book. let's talk

that's fair. >> i think it's fascinating also, willie. here you have the guy who is the conservative candidate. but he's getting it from both sides. he's getting it because he's reckless on social security, but he's also getting it on immigration, on forced immunization of teenage girls. all of these issues that make him -- make him the target from the left and the right. >> rick santorum went at him really hard last night on immigration debate. saying by the way, ron paul said he hasn't been so great for the state of texas. i'm from the state of texas. and to your point, john, putting out an argument. it's the same thing with social security. he says it's unconstitutional, wants to send it back to the states, that's all fine, but he needs to explain how he would do that. >> and he's not defending that position. he's starting to back from that. it was originally, there was something kind of, you know, gutsy about the way he was kind of all in on it. ponzi scheme, i'm not backing away from it. last night he was seeming to suggest he really

. >> willie, the -- >> what's going on? >> oh, this is arch west. >> arch west slipped the surly bonds of earth. >> i hate to tell you this. >> well, he touched td face of god. >> he actually died a week ago. >> okay. we learned yesterday. >> we learned yesterday. >> this guy, seriously. >> play along. >> the thing is, willie, if patrick moynihan were here today you know what he would say. he would say, you know, we may laugh again, willie geist, but with the passing of the founder of the doritos, we'll never be young again. it's over. >> irony might be dead. is it possible? >> exactly. >> doritos live on. cool ranch rocks the house. >> do you agree? >> oh, yes. willie and i have advanced degrees in nutrition. if you get your classic food pyramid, like back in the 1960s you would actually have doritos right below the top. >> i think that was actually probably the beginning of the downfall of the -- >> come on. he's passed away. why don't you just spit on arch west's grave? >> i'm not. look. >> this is so sacrilegeous. >> th

willie, have i? i don't know.e love. >> i've got to say this about rick perry, the one thing you cannot criticize him for, he's staked out this position, he's been consistent throughout his years in texas, and he's staying with it. and you know what? even i have to respect that in a man. because he's being a real man by saying this is what i believe. >> yeah. >> just like social security's unconstitutional. hold on, mika -- >> yeah. >> i want to apologize because he has been consistent on this issue, and it hurts him -- because that has shown political courage. and all too often, political courage is lacking. >> until now because actually yesterday in an interview with news max tv, perry apologized for that comment. >> but for what? >> and walked back from his stance on providing instate tuition. >> what? >> children of illegal immigrants. >> what? he's backing down. >> i probably chose a poor word to explain that. for people who don't want their state to be giving tuition to illegal aliens, illegal immigrants in

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and i always -- it was always interesting, willie geist.ht the first punch back after 9/11, and now this ten-year war against al qaeda. a war that for the most part we have won. the costs have been horrific. but osama bin laden's dead and so many, most of his lieutenants are dead. they've been scattered like the wind. but the first punch, the first counter attack is when todd beamer and some other guys from the back of the plane said let's roll, and they knocked down the cockpit door and knew they were going to their death, took it into the ground and saved the u.s. capitol. saved the u.s. capitol. >> some people said that almost immediately after the first battle of this war has been fought and america won. and you watch all this coverage of the last couple of days and you feel like you've seen enough of it. and you just don't want to -- but that story of flight 93, you just can't get enough of it. the composure these guys on the phones with their wives saying good-bye and saying -- >> the flight attendant did the same. >> saying we're goi

. >> we conclude our conversations about music with the great willie nelson. >> i think the music is probably saved my life many times. on a show at night doing a couple hours, back and forth. it's probably kept me alive. >> charlie: looking at music with patti smith, sting, james taylor and willie nelson when we continue. >> every story needs a hero we can all root for, who beats the odds and comes out on top. this isn't just a hollywood story line, it's happening every day all across america. every time a storefront opens or the midnight oil is burned or someone chases a dream not just a dollar. they are small business owners. if you want to root for a real hero, support small business, shop small. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: patti smith is here, pt, singer song writer, punk rocker. an extraordinary relationship with photographer robert maplethrower, he died of aids in 1989. they called it la boheme. welcom >> do you know wh the very first words you said when we first met like 10, 11 years ago. >>

willis wonders why he was not behind bars. >> why is he walking the streets?omebody dropped the ball somewhere. >>pittman also defrauded a woman who gave him $2,500 for a foundation that supposedly gave children hula hoops. >>> take a look at some of the stories we will follow in the day ahead. it has the more than one month since our region was rocked by an earthquake. we will get an update on the status of the washington monument. the 5.8 earthquake called -- cause cracks in the structure and force the monument to close. the past few weeks have been spent trying to figure out how to make repairs. the community will gather this evening to discuss a plan to install surveillance cameras inside fairfax county public schools. this proposal is in response to food fight that broke out at two by schools last school year. officials said the cameras will help crack down on bullying and theft. the meeting is set for 6:00 tonight and will be held at hayfield secondary school. >>> tonight, the redskins are looking to make get 0 and 3 "in scans take on the dallas cowboys.

the willie brown school was closed. it is proposed to be reopened when the bill passes. then the partner high-school is marshall, where the majority of kids tend to go. many kids go to a range of schools. these are partner schools. i want to talk for just a second. the grant to does something for the residents. it provides social service money to provide an on-site community center. case workers worked in the developments day today and wake up every day and think about the need for those residents and then work differently in a way with those families. they also partner with the consolation of schools. the thing that is exciting is that it really comes at a time when the district has already been focused on the school transformation through the superintendent zone under the leadership of the doctor and the superintendent himself. there was some core work that was happening to address the historic inequities in the bayview. the district has been focused on release supporting and developing the teachers as the change agents in the school. some principals now a seat -- rece

willie mays had trouble buying a house in san francisco.a couple of people would not show him a house. they had to enlist the mayor and a bunch of people. this is their reservoir. companies would take a block and there would start wrecking houses. there were building two a day -- they were building two with a. the 1930's were the big boom times for the sunset. >> this is a recession. >> these are the homes in west would park. -- in westwood park. >> how did this perform? the composite the assembly -- come's assembly -- composite assembly. >> they would stucco it. they would put chicken wire on it. >> when i inspect buildings that are being remodeled, i see that the chicken wire mesh is completely gone. >> it is galvanized. the saltwater was enough to rest it out. >> it people think stucco is waterproof -- it is not waterproof. it sucks the water in. you have to water protect it and paint it. >> the above the low medium that was going on -- the bungalow frenzy that was going on, people were building houses at a remarkable rate in the 1930's.

willie geist joins me from ground zero.ed to be on heightened alert because of the commemoration and the ten-year mark as it was. what have you seen that makes you think, wow, okay. new york city is taking it up a notch? >> yeah, chuck. this is going to be locked down as it is. ten-year anniversary, always a popular situation for chatter. particularly this time, ed earl the mayor giving a press conference saying there is a credible, key word, unconfirmed report. generally means a single-source report, that al qaeda and pakistan, planning something involving a car or a truck. extra vigilance in the city. we've been talking to friends across town. sixth avenue and other places, every car over a certain period of blocks is being stopped and checked. every single car. 34th street and north on sixth avenue is being checked. they're not taking this lightly at all. subway checks, bag checks there. and you see, if you live around new york, you see once in a while a stream of about 20 or 30 cop car, sirens on, lights on, flies down

. >> and willie geist.'ve got to tell you, i've got to tell you, last night -- you know the sox get hammered the afternoon game. >> yep. >> making a.j. burnett look good. >> hard to do. >> that is hard to do. very hard to do. and then he pitches, gave up three runs in the first inning. >> didn't get a lot of help from the defense. >> not a lot of help from defense. but he held on and i can't believe it. and they actually -- the red sox won a game. the red sox won a game. the red sox won a game. >> that play right there, you thought, here we go again. they throw the ball to the outfield, he comes around to score, but they fought back. that was a huge win last night, ellsbury hits a home run to win the game. they're tied for the wild card, no momentum, looks like it'll go to the rays. now up a game with three to play, they get the orioles, braves have to play the yankees. you're still betting on the red sox to go to the playoffs. >> not that i'm obsessing on this, because i'm not, but the "boston globe" poste

. >> the warning signs tacked to trees just off of state highway 20 became willis and fort bragg tell the story that peter did this on the loose and the forest north of the highway is closed. they have been conducting the massive manhunt for eric bassler of suspect in two he was caught on camera. it forced visitors like brent and susie sizemore we're shocked when they heard about the manhunt. >> he is better at what he does, and he's scared. >> well, the sheriff's department is leading this effort with help from law enforcement throughout california and also the us marshal service and all the coordinated at this command post. >> the sheriff's captain says this is the forensic laboratory has no conclusively linked him to fingerprints to upper kuwait by the great vacation cabins were mistaken. and, they took food and also at 22 caliber rifle and 12 gauge shotgun. >> do you believe the suspect is armed and dangerous even to someone he doesn't know? >> absolutely. >> is suspected of murdering matthew colman and another case. in both cases they think bassler may have been trying to protect

willie the wildcat. band forever, has been doing a little thing at half time at the football games with the theme every man a wildcat. but now they're not going to do it anymore. why? >> some people are up in arms that the man is not all inclusive and a couple of years ago, there was this young co-ed, this woman who wrote this editorial in the college newspaper and said, i think it should be not epal, every person. >> bill: so every person a wildcat. it isn't that they're offended by wildcats. >> no, it's the man. >> bill: it's the beast that would eat and kill you. they're not offended by that. they're offended by every man? >> right. >> bill: so they're offended by the word mankind, i guess? >> it's so silly. >> dagen and i are smart working women and we don't have a problem with calling this ima. we don't have is a problem with saying the word m in man. >> i don't have a problem with chairman if you're a woman. >> bill: so you both agree this is foolish and beyond stupid? >> but it was actually a band

as his good friend, willy brown, said about george, george's only problem is when he has two drinks he thinks hes invisible. and george was swept into office in 19 -- well, not swept but he won the mayority in 1976 with the backs of gays and neighborhood organizations, with a new force in city politics that was spearheaded by the burton brothers and willy brown and their democratic machine. george moscone was part and parcel of that. harvey milk's background was different. harvey came from new york. was a smart new york. >> liked to crack wise, and he had a background in finance and the theater. he had been in the navy. he played football in high school. but eventually he became the rosa parks of the gay movement. he was the fellow who stood up and went to the front of the bus and said, i'm going to be a city supervisor. i'm gay and i'm going to be elected. and of course, he was, which was quite an extraordinary thing. especially because at that time in the city in the mid-'70s, san francisco was undergoing an integration crisis. maybe the only gay integration crisis in history, but it

i'm willie geist. we're here at a public charter school that has cracked the code.heir combine test scores last year made this school the single highest performing charter school in the state of new york. we'll look into how they've done it. one of the reasons i can tell you is the head of school here. she's a former track star at ucla. i can tell you first hand, she's not lost an ounce of her competitiveness. you'll meet her in just a bit. later on "morning joe," we'll bring in the starbucks ceo. our partner in the brewing together education. that's all at the top of the hour. we also,

that is something that mayor willie brown taught me. we allow our communications to get through and people will get through to us. i also want to give my appreciation to the police chief being out there tackling those things, even if there are communities that do not understand what we are doing, trying to get to a level of communication that is comfortable for everyone, so that we get good information. as i said earlier, working with our public safety adviser and his staff to promote as much prevention as we can. it is not always going to be the police stopping everything. it will be other programs that prevent and change people's lives. that has to work in concert with our police department and all the things they do, but it begins with a good presence. the police chief has shown that through a number of things he has done, making sure there are great communications while we ask our police officers, has with our other public officers, to contribute to the deficit, making sure that our funding gap is closed. this is one of the most dif

i'm willie geist. we're here at a public charter school that has cracked the code.heir combine test scores last year made this school the single highest performing charter school in the state of new york. we'll look into how they've done it. one of the reasons i can tell

of course, the mayor then was willie brown, and he said, what are you going to do with this? and of course the first thing you do if you read it, and you read it with the understanding that there is probably a lot of information there that will be very hard and goals and programs that will be very hard to implement at the department of public works, which had historically been a very male- dominated agency. but we made a commitment to the mayor, we made a commitment to the commission that we would study that report and to implement every single one of those as that applied at every level of the department. i was willing to do that because around in may were a lot of other powerful women, who said it would not be that hard. all you had to do is pay attention to it, and all you had to do was not take no for an answer and all you had to do was look forward, not backward. and with those varied little pieces of advice, which took on that task and we found at the local managers. we found that many women who were trying to even get to the blue-collar work, the work on the streets, h

insane. >> willie, what are the plans for september 11th?ng to be doing personally? >> they are going to dedicate, joe, the national 9/11 memorial and museum. we talked to the architect on "morning joe" yesterday. the two beautiful pools surrounded by trees and the names of everyone who died here and washington and shanksville. first responders will be there. the families of many of the victims. there will be four, actually six different moments of silence as they do the annual ritual of reading off the names of the deceased. they will pause various moments when the planes hit the building and when the plane hit the pentagon and crashed in shanksville, pennsylvania. lenny, thanks for being with us and thanks for all you do for this city. >> lenny, just today. just today. god bless you for everything you do. >> thank you guys. thank you. >> just for you, lenny, we put together something. we have talked so much about the post-9/11 world and how everything changed on that day. we wanted to pause for a moment at what was making news on the last

stay tuned because "way too early" with willie geist starts right now.ave a terrific monday. >>> rick perry has a rough weekend getting destroyed for his debate performance the other night by snl to the fox news sunday panel. and herman cain pulls an upset in the straw poll. >>> and president obama is raising some own cash for his 2012 campaign. and a tough day for new england sports fans as tom brady and the patriots throw one away to the bills and the red sox continue their historic self destruction. the question is what was the one bit of good newsor the sox late last night in new york city? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. i'm willie geist and this is "way too early." the show has likes you as a friend. we're glad you are up this morning watching us on msnbc.

from outside the courthouse, david willis reports. >> his death sparked an outpouring of grief around the world, but michael jackson fans are not the only ones demanding answers. jackson's family made it clear that they blame dr. murray for jackson's death. dr. murray denies involuntary manslaughter but the prosecution claimed he was well aware of the effects of drugs were having on michael jackson. they played a rambling, incoherent tape recording the doctor made of? and days after he was hired. >> [unintelligible] >> central to this trial is a powerful surgical anesthetic known as propofal, an overdose that was caucaused michael jac's death. the question is to administer the fatal dose? the prosecutor saw to leave the jury and no doubt as to who was irresponsible. >> did dr. conrad murray abandon michael when he needed help? it was dr. conrad murray's gross negligence. it was dr. conrad murray's unskilled hands and his desire to obtain this lucrative contract of $150,000 a month that led dr. conrad murray not only to abandon his patient but to abandon all principles of medical care.

willie. >> all right. domenica, thanks so much. >>> yesterday, the sports world took a collective exhale after wednesday night's intense finish to the baseball season with the red sox completing the worst september collapse in the history of baseball. well, tonight the playoffs begin in the american league. at 5:07, the rays head to arlington to play the texas rangers. matt moore takes the mounds against c.j. wilson. at 8:37 p.m., the detroit tigers visit the bronx to play the yankees. justin verlander faces off against cc sebathia. national league series, 2:07 the d-backs and brewers. 5:07, cards and phillies. in t less than 24 hours after that historic red sox collapse, general manager theo epstein held a somber year-ends conference to discuss team failures during the 2011 season. sitting next to manager terry francona, the gm placed blame on the entire organization but refused to scapegoat francona. >> nobody blames what happened in september on tito. that would be terribly irresponsible and would not r

brown and then willie brown started having his graffiti summits. as a result of my actions, richmond became a better place. not just removing graffiti but everything on public property i took pictures of, documented. dates, where it was and that went to the commission unit. when a perpetrator was arrested for that tag they nailed him with all the different pictures we had provided. in 2000 i received an award from you from captain ed springer for all the stuff i've done in this community. i love this community. this district is awesome, this theater. presidio, middle school. some of the kids. i currently work with the friends of mountain lake park. i do all the dog waste bags. that's what i do now. i was deputy sheriff for 10 years. i had an advance post. what i'm here tonight is they found my application for patrol special. it was going to be 30 days for them to approve it and it's been over one year. this is my anly days and this award is attached to that and i'm still not a patrol special. i've asked the captain to apoint me. i think i'm worthy

here is willie brown's response. >> oh, my god.nt and you gave your blessings to that kind of alone and two guys look in the near and said, hey, i'm sorry it can't discuss it. it may have some implications for my freedom. >> off that tv gets going to take the republicans to put an ad out? >> they have already started. this is gold to them. this talks about how bad the stimulus was. this is $500 million that went to a company. they don't want the government picking winners and losers. it's solar energy or a republican say, it's not quite ready yet. we'd like to give our money to an existing asp. >> is there anything worse than somebody taking the fifth for a politician? >> one thing worse. the politician himself taking the fifth. >> on a different front, the republicans quite a bash up from the debate. it looks that it's boiling down to that romney and rick perry until the convention. >> we are talking about how rick perry toward the end of the debate seemed tired. could you possibly be tired at the end of an hour and a half debate?

don't go anywhere, willie gei"w early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> death.people have been fearing an innocent man being put to death. for the past few days and into today, all those who could have stopped the execution did not. now tonight his lawyers have appealed to the u.s. supreme court. >> 7:00 p.m. on the east coast now, and troy davis, a convicted killer, is about to be put to death down in georgia. let's go to pete williams, nbc's justice correspondent. pete? >>> chris, we are waiting for the u.s. supreme court to say whether or not it's going to grant a stay of execution. the request came just a little over an hour ago from the lawyers for troy davis. and the court hasn't yet responded. there's no time limit by which it must respond. however, it does appear from what we're hearing from people in georgia that the state is delaying the execution. >> this word now, reuters is reporting that the supreme court has denied a stay of execution. for more, let's go to pete williams, nbc news, justice correspondent. >> it's a brief order from the court. i wil