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he's since gone on to wte merous books aboutashington, including onhe presincy, the preme court and the milary. he recently accompaniedational securitydvisor jim jones to afghanistan and wrotabout the trip in the "st". i am pleased to have him back on this broadcast. welcome. thank you. >> i want to take the temperature of washington today as you see it. wh are pros saying about the presidt so far? >> they don know and there's a lot politics and a lot of rhetoricets thrown arod on bo sides. but thinkeople are ki of... if you're looking for at's going on or what's the sens and obvisly there's ner agreement, but it'sind of t shakespearean lemma is the king a good king or a flawed king? and people on both sidesust aren't sure. here's this very yng, inexperiend president who's put so much on the table. once i had subpoena countit up and it wa 131 major fish initiatives, legistion, mor appointments, major idea. the day this came to me, 131, on the front pa of my own newspar, the "washington post," president obama issued an executive der saying he was ing to clean up the chepeake bay. he is u

. >> sir, did you se your en chief of staff and wte house counsel to the bedside of ashcfthile he was to get him to approve that program? and do you believe that nd of conduct from whiteouse officials ppropriate? >> kelly,there's a lot of spulation about what happened and what didn't happen. i'm not gointo talk about it. 's a very sensitive program. i will tell you the prram was necessar as i said, the pgr was a neceary program that was constantly reviewed and constantly briefed to e congss. it's an importanpart of protectinghe united states. >> george bu's officially confmed deception was not just by omission but also cmission. the report prepareat the request of congress also revealing in theays after the 9/ attacks the president authorized secret surveillance actities beyond controversial warrantls retapping, which still han't been made public. they were referred to in this report as the president's survllance program. eqlly unsettling the report also stating an unnamewhite house ofcial inserted a paragraph into the firsthreat assessment prepared the cia after the 9/11 attackshich

in the wte house, which leads a ency and the cabet member th a layer between tha person d the president. >> i mu bthenly one that ppened -- that knowwhat happened tohe czar. i have heaomplaints within state department that there is a shortage of space to p all of thspecial envoys' in. this whole thing is begning to loed a little bit moreike the rst clinton admistration. it was driven vy much by th polical. itould also be a natnal security meeng. to some eent what you are seeing, he looksood on the world stage. gates has good access. >> the secretary odefense perry >illary is isolated at this point, panetta was put ove at the cia to make sure that things go quietand jones is running the dayo day shop. >> would not so jones short. he is a rmidable pernality. he has not shown his hand far,as he. >> he is straight as an arrow, maybtwo straight -- maybeoo straight. the high point here is at action in ira is not going to immediate. >> the hh point is that in spite of allhe fuss you are hearing, this is an internal battle. we wl keep ourool on this one. i have neutral point. i think we shld kn

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thanks so much from the wte house. >>> for more on today's to stories from c's politil unit, logon to first read dot msnbc.com. >>> a swim club in one philadelphia suburb is still knee deep in troued waters. a class action mpint has beeniled against the club baseon allegations ofracism. the lawsuit target the valley swim club in huntingdon valley pennsylvania. an african-american clas her four cldren were died swimming priviles cause of thcolor of their skin. suit also says othe campers heard club members make racist remarks. president of the club's boardf directors has apogized and said there was a "misunderstandg." >>> florida investigators working n-stop to try to solve the bruturder of a pensacola couple. this morninghey say they're getting pretty close. big break came satday when seral tips led them to a red van rembling one seen on the surveillance veo leaving the cole's home at the time of the muer the couple w shot dea thursday night while nine of their chilen were in the hopingslping. c's mark potter joins me now live from pensacola. i understandnvestigators interviewed twper

whathey are talking about is ducing a lot of wte.there knowledged waste that theealth care indusy itsel hasacknowledged. u may remembe that last month, many sectors of the heal care industry came to the president d volunteered to start makinedtions in the private health re market. so these are seps they can take inside the federal heal care spending pro to reduce waste towaste, t begin to bring spending more in line with what i the kind of spending that good for quality of e, care that is focused on the whole patient care that is not engaged in all kinds of wasteful practices. >> right. >> the indtry itself admits exists this enormous amount waste and ty are pledging to tackle that in legiation. >>linda douglass at the white housoffice for health care reform, thank yoso much for joining us today. >> thank you. >> have a goodone. >>> how will the media continue to cover theing of pop? joining us is the managing editor of of my favorite magazine "rolling stone," blishing a special coemorative issue on michael jackson thismonth. talk to

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he wte the best-selling book, "the language of god: a scientist presents edence for belf."ic and religiohave some deep and common root and some ofthe world's greatest musicians have taken the inspiration from higher power. jazz musicians too, ke the legeary dave brubeck-- still performing at age 88 our porter bob faw takes a look abrubeck the man, some of his music, and the faith th maes it all happen. ♪ ♪ >>reporter: for narly six decades, dave bruck has been daling listeners worldwide with s unique inventive style, he has beme a jazz immortal. ♪ what is less known-- and jusas remarkable-is that for much of that time, brubeck h also compos religious music like the commandments whiche recorded for theilken archive of american jesh music. ♪ in his relious scores, brubeck achieves wh he cannot achieve in jazz >> when i write aiece, a saed piece, i'm looking hard a trying to discover what i'm out, and what my parents wer about, the worlis about. >> reporter: youhink religious music can changpeople? >> yeah, sure! >> rerter: brubeck says his seice in world war two convinced him

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i've sat through the meetings at the wte house with the present and the vice president.ust me, there's not e person that sat in those rooms th didn't know how rious our economicrisis was. for a clor look at the stimulus, how it is ois not fulfilling pectations. we turto members of congress alsto mark zandi, chief economist at moodyconomy.com. he has been coulted with coress and the white house during the curre crisis. house minority ip eric cantor of virginia, cis van hollen of maryland, head of the democric congressionalampaign committe mark i'll start wi you, you were ground zero in all of this when people were taing about a needor stimulus plan. is it working? >> yeah, it'sorking close to what i uld have expeed at his point in time. it's still early days, only four or five months in t the package. but ste governments are getting checks, unempyed workers are gettg more nefits. social security recipients got check in the mail in may, pople who are working ve lower withholding. business tax cu are ltering through, even getting infrastructure spending. everything is going

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but this is ve tricky business becae, of course, the wte house, thepresident, will acknledge he'll bes. the stimulus has t create jobs. people are so wored about budget defici so this is very, ry tricky and a source of some concern. >> and there'sertainly some polls bcking up those coerns. savannah uthrie, thank you s much. good to seeyou. enjoy yr trip there with the presidt. up next pat buchanan weihs in on the presint's trip sarah palin anso much more. nnouncer) we e spk k r. and guess w wt?t? the car listenens. you say c calninina you get nina.. yoyosasay ay puccini, 1212 sy y eakers... play p pucnini. yoyou y y t me to the gagame you get there ststp by step. wi our voice activated ncncechnology, no one e spksksour languguaglilikee do. we speak the 2020 ford fusion. gegeinin..and drive one.e. hahang to go in the ddddlef traffic anand just srting and stopping. havio go in the mile oa ballgame and then not beingble to go once i gothe. and going at night. i i thghghi had a going proboble my doctor said i h h a growing problem. it wasn't my b blaerer. mymyrostate was grgrowg.g. i i ha

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this wte house is preparing for more than one vacancy on the high court.republicans want to make it clear that there are political downsides in republicans opposing the first hispanic nominee to the supreme court b at the same time they can lay down markers saying we'll put perimeters around the kind of judge you put up next time. judge roberts had a good go when he was george bush's nominee but justice alito had a different time. >> judge sotomayor gets to set the tone. she'll make an opening statement. what does she need to accomplish in that? >> people who have been involved in prepping her say she'll be low key. they compare her to former justice o'connor in terms of her style, her spokenness. she may be boring. she won't be an academic. she won't wow everyone with her answers. they're trying to set expectations lower to say this will be a low key affair. no fireworks. she's a traditional mainstream judge who has a really compelling life story and will impress this panel. >> david, thanks very much. david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." >> let'

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