lawrence, lawrence and his wife did not have a male heir, and when lawrence's widow married, remarried, then mount vernon passed to george. so here was a guy who was in possession of a large plantation, he was one of the most prominent virginians because of his military service. he was on his way toward wealth and power within virginia, so from martha's stand point he was a good catch as well. i did want to say people do say, well, washington married the wealthiest widow in virginia, so it must have been something that he was sort of conniving for. and there's no evidence for that. we don't know exactly what went into his thinking at the time, but what appears to be the case is that they did have a very close relationship. i mean, they were married until washington died in 1799, so my math isn't very good, 40 years, i guess, that they were married. but they appear to have had a close, loving relationship as best we can tell during the revolutionary war, for example, washington when the armies would go into winter quarters, he would always have martha come and stay with him at headquart

host: independent line, you are on with lawrence yun. caller: i paid $66,000 for my home, but i have to pay the bank over $150,000. i think that needs to be addressed. i cannot move forward because i am taking 30 years out of my life to pay back the $60,000. i do not know why you cannot pay more on principal, instead of paying so much to the bank of front. i make $50,000 per year. i do not have any money. i think we can stimulate the economy if they address why we have to pay back the banks. host: what kind of interest rate? caller: 6.5% >> . guest: this is a very favorable rate. currently, the mortgage rate is roughly at 5.5%, or 5%, depending on credit scores. i am providing the lending activity, essentially, the people who are providing the capital have the right of a rate of return on their investment. the situation is with the interest rates are very low, but some people are still locked in a higher rate. in some cases, the banks are just dragging their feet. host: the amortization bothers that color. thaback to your point, people a

in fact, lawrence was against independence. where that rumor comes from is south carolina was, i think, actually the first was new hampshire or south carolina, but before -- they were the first ones to establish new governments, but the government that they established, they were very clear was provisional government until the disputes were settled. and so in that sense, it didn't really differ than all the other provincial congresses, which were doing the same thing. they just made it more formal. provisionally, until the dispute is settled and this is before the declaration, this would be our government, and then -- and they actually put a six-month time limit on it, so it's hardly declaring independence. but that's the rumor -- that's the beginning of, you know -- >> what i was in south carolina, a lot of people liked to think that. >> they liked to think that. in fact, on the vote of independence, south carolina was lagging. on july 1, 1776, you all know july 4, 1776, july 1, the motion for independence came on june 7. they

i just -- >> you've got to be mean to lawrence. >> to lawrence? okay. >> i used the words paris hilton too close to mika. >> mommy. all right, top of the hour. we've got a lot to get to, including glenn beck in the news. >> what did glenn do? >> i actually would rather not, but i think we have to because the story is now developing, and he called the president a name. we'll play it in its entirety and try our best to talk about it. and also, former secretary of state colin powell weighing in on the gates incident, kind of surprising. we'll have that coming up as well. oh, jonathan capehart's here. >> oh, good. >> joining us from washington, "the washington post." great to have you on. look at that adorable smile. >> hello. >> nice to have you on. we'll get to you in just a minute, jonathan. time now for a look at some of today's top stories. >>> judge sonia sotomayor is one step closer to taking a seat on the nation's supreme court. in a 13-6 vote, the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination, sending it to the full senate for a vote nex

also in lawrence versus texas, he drew on international opinion. and it tends to be -- careful how far i have putt this. it tends to be in the cases where justice scalia writes a scathing dissent and highlights the international sources that they tend to get the most attention, whereas justice kennedy as a whole actually does not use this very much in his jurisprudence. but where he has used it, it's highly consistent with his deep commitment to civic education, and the dialogue of freedom is just one part of this. kennedy is very much believes that people need to be enlightened citizens and that one way to enlighten themselves is to draw on other views outside of their own little world. now, he has been subject to criticism when he therefore puts those principles into an opinion where it sort of makes it seem as though he's drawing on the decisions from the international court of justice, rather than looking at the u.s. constitution. but really, if you sort of dig deeper into his references of international norms and rules, what he does is to -- i

jodie lawrence-turner, thank you for your reporting. cooper, always good for talking to you. >> thanks, mike. >> from that to this. first we see john goss lyn on a yacht in the french rivera with his 22-year-old girlfriend. he has a kid back home. now there is a report he's engaged. and she's got a $180,000 engagement ring! nice move, john!

good evening, john. >> lawrence, how are you? >> john, everyone brings their personal perspective to this. i'm sure you have experience and personal perspective you brought to it as soon as the news came out. what was your reaction? >> you know, my reaction was here we go again. i mean, this is the kind of thing that you see far too often in the black community. just recently for example ryan motes an nfl running back was stopped when trying to get his wife to see her dying mother and a police officer detained him in the parking lot of the hospital despite the fact staff were coming out saying his mother-in-law is dying. let him go. the officer took his time in writing him up. i think there are a lot of people who are surprised by this or think we have a black president. why is this thing happening? was not surprised or shocked but was disappointed but the kind of thing you expect to see unfortunately. >> the president has talked about this being a teachable moment. what do you think the teachable moment is here? >> you know what

i'm lawrence o'donnell. keith olbermann has the night off. this time last year there was speculation that senator john mccain might be on the verge of announcing that he had selected a popular republican governor as his running mate. no, not that republican governor. the governor in question was actually tim pawlenty of minnesota. instead, in our fifth story on the "countdown" senator mccain was actually weeks away from even starting to vet the woman who would join his ticket at the last minute, the once obscure sarah palin, no longer the governor of alaska. mark her down as officially unofficial news. palin handed over the governorship sunday with more than a year left in her term but she did not leave without some measure of fanfare. saying good-bye to alaskans at a series of picnics across the state. in fact, she said a lot more than just good-bye but not much that actually made sense. >> together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect all of our cherished freedoms including our freedom of speech, which par for the course, i

let's bring in cooper lawrence on this. cooper, it sounds like mary kay will he turn owe all over again. she says she doesn't see anything wrong with this, she is in love with the 14-year-old, now 16, asking for mom's blessing. what's going on in this mind here? >> it's a type of pedophilia called hebaphilia. >> there is a name for it? >> there is, because there are pedophiles that have distinct preferences, and we as psychologists have to define them. and i will tell you first of all that treating them is nearly impossible. i rarely see anybody that doesn't have medication or, you know, some extreme sort of like castration, that sort of thing, where they actually stop. the recidivism rate is very high. so it's -- i have to say, the only good thing here is that she is 28, and we found out now. because heaven forbid that she starts at 28, and it goes on for many more years. you know, and people don't find out that she has this disorder. somebody that's a hebophile is somebody that is interested in children, sexually aroused

i'll get to lawrence on the law, too. i understand the word assassination means killing political leaders. there's a gray area there, like munich. golda meir says, go get the guys who killed our athletes. at what point does a person become a political leader and not a terrorist, an operative? >> a couple things. first of all, as we reported today, that was in some part patterned after the israeli mossad operation to gun down palestinian terrorists after the munich olympics. >> which everybody saw in the movie. >> and they request did. you also remember mistakes were made. in one case they got a moroccan waiter who they mistakenly thought was a palestinian terrorist in norway, and members of the mossad team were locked up by the norwegian criminal justice system and spent time in jail. this was one of the things the cia was worried about. you know, that -- risk of exposure, risk they would send these squads into cities around the world and they might get -- someone might tip them off and they might get busted. but, you kno

lawrence was against independence. with that rumor comes from is south carolina was i think actually the first in the hampshire or south carolina but before, they were the first ones to establish new governments, but the government that they established they were very clear was provisional government until the disputes were settled and so in that sense it did not really different from all the other provincial congresses which were doing the same thing. they just made a more formal. professionally until the dispute is settled and this is before the declaration this will be our government and the action put a six month time limit on it so it is hardly declaring independence but that is the beginning. >> when i was in south carolina a lot of people like to think that. >> they like to think that. in fact on the flotage independence south carolina was like being. on july 1st, 1776 ewald no july 4, 1776. the motion for independence came on june 7. they said we don't have the votes now. people should go back to their states.

go, lawrence. >> what are your deal breakers? will you vote against anything that has an employer mandate in it? >> well, the bill -- we've changed it. it allows some exemptions for small businesses. if you got a payroll of $500,000, or less, you're not going to have to pay into this thing. we need to make sure that small businesses are protected. i think we've accomplished that in the proposal that we've made to the leadership. >> so you would go for an employer mandate for everything above that small business threshold that you have defined. >> that's correct. >> and what would be the penalty for companies on the employer mandate, those who didn't provide health insurance? would they have to pay that 8% payroll tax that has been talked about, or would it be lower? >> that's the proposal right now. this is a long way off before we actually have a bill. the 8% is something that i think is negotiable and we'll see what happens. >> what do you expect to happen over the course of the august recess where there is no bill that has bee

let me ask lawrence, though. lawrence, john harwood said basically that the correlation of forces, i know the calendar is behind, but the correlation of forces now with business behind this. >> right. >> is so strong, that they're going to come down with something this time, and they're not going to walk away with nothing. they're not going to get the great big package. is that right? >> that's a mirage. the support on health care is always a mirage, including businesses in the different sectors, because what they're in favor of right now is nothing. there's no bill that these support groups are specifically in favor of. when you get it down to the thing that we're actually going to vote yes or no on, most of that support disappears, because what happens to them is they've lost their item, as we move through the process. the unions will oppose, certain people will open pose the bill as soon as it take as turn away from what they want. same thing with business, and it is going to. as this thing progresses it can o

let's bring in cooper lawrence. it sounds like mary kayla turn know all over again telling the little brother and sister, she doesn't see there's anything wrong with this. she's in love with the 14-year-old, asking for mom's blessing. what's going on in her mind here. >> it's a kind of pedophilia called h eed hebephilia. >> unfortunately, there are pedophiles with distinct sexual preferences and we have to define them in order to treat them. treating them is nearly impossible. i rarely anybody that doesn't have medication or some extreme sort of like castration that, sort of thing where they actually stop. the recidivism rate is very high. the only good thing here, she's 28 and we found out now because heaven for bid she starts at 28 and it goes on for many more years and people don't find out she has this disorder. somebody that's a heb file is be interested in children between the ages of 11 and 14, a very specific age range because they are either on their way into pubert or prepubescent or starting to reach pube

she clearly did it for the sake of sarah, lawrence. i mean, i have never seen anything more ridiculohan at press conference, except what followed that press conference. how do you give a speech complaining about how poorly the national mia has treated you, and then when you go off on yo shing vacation with your family, wh you invite? doounvite your family? your friends? , you invite kate snow, matt lauer and the entire natiol media. if the media are the problem she should be run arrunning away from them and establishing her bona fides for her future political career. she's so confused. is there a word r a hycrite who doesn't en know she's a hypocrite? it was self-ty, it was victimation, and it was all about sarah. >> ron christie, you want rise to the defee of sarah pali this one? >> happy to,awrence. i think governor palin madthe decision that wabest for her, best for heramily and best for the e of alaska. ron, just to stop you there, you did start with best for her as the number e reason, which shnever mentions. >>f course, lawrence,

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lawrence, i wanted to just touch on one of your points where you were talking about how we could actually buy a lot of the opium from the afghan people and help them in the meantime while we figure out how to control that market. it is actually one of the best things we could do. opium -- i don't think people realize it -- but it is one of

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host: the first call for lawrence yun on the democrats' line. caller: what is the threshold for this $8,000? i understand that this is supposed to be for first-time home buyers. what about the person's credit? is it just going to be eight thousand dollars? if this person is making $100,000 per year, and this person is making $20,000 per year? host: is it for everybody? guest: there is certain criteria. it is for a first-time home buyer. the definition is someone who has not owned a home for the past three years. if somebody own a home 10 years ago and decided to sell it and has been renting for the past few years could qualify. there's also an income limitation. currently, $75,000 for a single @@@@@@ guest: there is an income limitation, and it is up to $8,000, or 10% of home price, which means if someone was to buy, say, a $60,000 home, they would get $6,000 rather than a thousand dollar tax credit. host: gwendolyn is on the independent line. caller: my problem is is that i paid $66,000 for my home, but i have to pay it back over $150,000, and

>> i would guess the latter, lawrence. i think it's the right thing. this is not an argument that they want to put forward. the truth of the matter is if federal financing of abortions, if that were an issue, you weren't going to vote for this bill anyway. todd tiahrt was not voting for the health care bill anyway. this is something he's citing, but i don't think that's as persuasive. go back and look at what the cbo director said. cost, not a huge decrease in cost and an addition to the debt. that's what republicans want to be talking about. i'll be honest, i'm sure they're unhappy about the tiahrt comments are getting as much attention as they are frankly because it's distracting them from a much stronger issue, which is questions about whether barack obama is doing the right thing by growing government. whether it's the economic stimulus, the health care plan. that's a place they actually, polling suggests, they can win with the american people. arguments about abortions or hypothetical abortions is not where you want to go. interesting side note, t

cooper lawrence, help me out here. number one, our teachers shouldn't be friends on facebook with our students, am i right? or is that opening a bad door? >> it's inappropriate because it's a power relationship here. so in my opinion -- >> we lost cooper. she was making a great point. marc, did you have something to to with that? >> i did that on purpose. >> okay. guys, we've got to take a quick break. more after the break. we'll hear more from marc. we want your calls. >>> you're back here on "prime news" on hln. a math teacher, married mother of three, accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student and chatting up another student on facebook. possibly for another tryst. we have our experts standing by. i want to bring back cooper lawrence, author of the book "cult celebrity." she invited these kids as friends on facebook, that's a no-no. word of wise to the teachers, none of that. if you want to get a message to the students, give them a note. >> it's completely inappropriate. when you look at the history of sex an

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lawrence, thank you so much. thank you, both. >> bye-bye. >>> mayors and rabbis arrested in a federal corruption in money laundering investigation. the case is unfolding in innew jersey. deborah feyerick is en route for a news conference. she joins us now by phone. what more have you learned about this case? >> reading a few of the criminal complaints and hundreds of pages for about 30 defendants and one point interesting that the mayor of hoboken in the months before he was in an election he mret with a real estate developer and one of his associates accepted thousands of dollars in cash from this real estate developer working for the government and there were conversations that were exchanged, all of it tape recorded with the developer saying, you know, you have to remember me. you have to expedite my zoning and then the hoboken mayor saying, "when i'm sworn in on july 1st, we break down the world into three categories. the people who are with us, that's you guys. the people who climbed onboard in the runoff, t

lawrence, good to see you. would the republican's launch have more credibility on this issue if, a, the party's chairman knew what kind of health insurance he had, and b, if he did policy? >> wow. it reminds you of a time when the first president bush was caught campaigning for election in 1992 and not knowing the price of milk in america. for michael steele, he couldn't have appeared more out of touch with people who are worried about preserving their health insurance, people who don't have it, people who have fought hard to get it. and know exactly who their carriers are and what their deductibles are and how much they spend every year. that was as bad a moment as you could ask for. and watching joe scarborough take him apart was a unique pleasure. watching a republican like joe go after that party chairman better than i think any of us could have. >> lawrence, there's also an rnc party memo who says the entire goal of the exercise is to slow this sausage-making process down in order to defeat it. not fix it,

i'm lawrence o'donnell in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, the president pushes back in the health care debate. as the cost argument rages on capitol hill, conservative opponents of president obama's plan to reform the nag's health care system have hit upon a new weapon to help defeat it. abortion. kansas republican todd tea hart took to the floor of the house last night and said federal financing of abortions could give some women an incentive to end pregnancies. then he went one very ugly step further. >> our president grew up in similar circumstances. if that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it? clarence thomas, supreme court justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible we'd have been denied his great mind? >> you heard right. the congressman is suggesting that barack obama and clarence thomas' mothers might have chosen abortion if the procedure simply had been free. we'll have more on that virulently racist logic. plus the relentlessly vex as

i want to go back to cooper lawrence. cooper, laura was just laying it out there for us, that the accused here, at least accused of being a fugitive from justice, no murder charges yet, we're talking about julie corey, has five kids. why a sixth? and why a sixth to this degree, cooper? help us understand this. ? but it's not the issue how many kids does she have. it's a bigger picture. first of all, we look at violent female offenders and we know that the research shows they tend to blame victims and they tend to blame society. they externalize what's going on. they don't look at themselves. so if she has a sickness, that's not going to be her cause. and if you look at the victim in this case, you're talking about somebody who has been diagnosed with a -- mentally retarded. she has ptsd. i mean, the victim herself has some profile that seems sort of vulnerable, that would make her vulnerable to a predator like this woman. so this is very case specific. i don't think she was out looking to see who can i kill. i think she s

i do n, lawrence o'donnell. i think the story is just bennin on augustrd, we go ba to court -- i say weike i am part of this. they go back to court o the custody iss. there omething to be said do you give three young children over to 79-year-old woman for perment custody. let's not fort about the financial story here. we have not begun to see where all the money is gog, and have you to consider more 100 songs stting there wting fob marketed. and aeg started to ta all the london shows begni in march. and there is a gold mine there as well. and the big elephantin the room, 's the tocogy report. i predict it will be out late ne week or the week after. and we are talking about criminal chaes for a lot of people. 's a very tgled web. we all know that. i think yesterday was fantastic cause it washuman. it show h was not just a celebrity's celebrity. for 90 minutes, we ralized he was a dad and a brotr and friend, and a gat short of punctuatioto that seence. >> there is an acalco restaurant, and we want yo to go over th

lawrence, thank you very much. great talking to you. >>> we're just getting in, and you will be interested to hear this, comments from former secretary of state colin powell. he spoke to cnn's larry king. >> you're saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying skip perhaps in this instance might have waited a while, come outside, talk to the officer, and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this is the time to make that big a deal. he's just home from china, just home from new york. all he wanted to do was get to bed. his door was jammed, so he was in a mood where he said something. >> what about those who say he brings the whole history into the body of the black movement? is. >> that may well be the case but i still think it might well have been resolved in a different manner if we didn't have this verbal altercation between the two of them. >> maybe the lesson of this is that people not voting on this along racial lines. i heard a lot of white people seeing the other sid

joining us now is retired army colonel, lawrence wilkerson. he's former chief of staff for secretary of state colin powell. he served during the first term of the bush administration. colonel wilkerson, thank you very much for coming back on the show. nice to see you. >> thank you, rachel. >> we've heard all this speculation, all these leaks about what this program might have been. you were there in the first term of the bush administration. does any of this ring any bells in terms of what you knew about at the time? >> it does ring some bells. we, very early on, after 9/11, at the state department, learned from our ambassadors in the field that there were teams being dispatched to their cities, to their countries, and these teams were clandestine and essentially aimed at capturing al qaeda leaders or al qaeda affiliates and interrogating them and so forth. so the fact that it might have gravitated over to the cia or the cia might have joined in, which is something that happens a lot these days with delta force and other special operators is n

and two of those aides in particular, alexander hamilton and colonel john lawrence from south carolina, were antislavery in their outlook. and i think when they were with washington in the evenings after a long workday, they must have talked about slavery on occasion. and i think they may have convinced washington of the immorality of slavery, and hamilton in particular, i think, may have convinced washington that slavery was not a good economic system, that a free labor system was a more productive labor system. after all, a free laborer who had an opportunity to rise by working hard would do more for the person that he was working for than a slave laborer would. so when washington came home from the revolutionary war, i think his attitude towards slavery had, had changed somewhat. but he continued to own slaves, and i think he felt that he had sacrificed for eight long years during the war, he thought he didn't have very much time to live, he was up in his 50s at that point. men in the washington family had a terrible habit of dying at a young age. washington's grandfather had been 3

>> yes, ma'am. >> and lawrence -- was there a lawrence? >> i did not mention any realty company. >> can you show the picture one more time? >> yes i can. ms. long also has some also known as. she is also known as pamela long wiggins, pamela l. malden, pamela long link, pamela lauvere co-coach and pam long. this is her photo, we will pass copies out. >> last known address? >> we would prefer at this time because this is not meant to be harassment for ms. long. we will so the speak to her business dealings, her business holdings or her current home address. again, we want to emphasize that it is imperative we speak with her as soon as possible. we would like for her to contact or if she has any family or friends that are aware of her whereabouts, please contact the escambia county sheriff's office a? >> put the community in danger and if not, why do you think she is on the run? >> to our knowledge, she is not someone that would put this community danger. >> is she a realtor or landlord? >> she was representing the property. again -- >> as a

we will wrap up the program with lawrence korb. but first, and update with c- span radio. >> a bill on the financial regulatory reform on executive pay restrictions may be ready by the end of the week. house financial services committee barney frank says his committee will mark legislation tomorrow. though it's expected on the floor by friday. congressman frank speaks votes -- votes are expected on the floor by friday. in a few hours, the commerce department releases june home sales figures. analysts expect an increase from may's level. the republican governors association names tim pawlenty as its vice chair today. the minnesota governor will campaign for republicans in this fall's two gubernatorial contests. president nicolas sarkozy has been discharged from the hospital where he spent the night. his office says the french president's collapse during jogging was due to heat and overwork. >> a health-care bill will not likely seek action in the senate soon. harry reid says it will not occur until the fall. but it is still possible

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sean: lawrence summers said -- >> they expected the economy to be turned around in july? sean: is doing its job. those were the words he used. >> they made a mistake. they made a mistake by claiming that unemployment rates were going to be lower than they are. sean: timothy geithner promised the american people that the effect would be "felt almost immediately." they were wrong. it will take almost -- at least -- >> and you made a wrong left turn on the way to the wedding. they are 10 minutes late. we made a mistake. it is 1.5 points higher than they thought it would be. that is a massive mistake. sean: he was saying " catastrophe," "crisis." he was saying if we did not pass it, unemployment would be at 9%. >> start looking at what happens next. their budget projections are 4% growth next year. whatever the deficit is now, however that it is, it is only getting worse. >> frankly, the greatest critics happen to be the liberal economists who they relied on in the beginning that are pushing them toward additional deficits, additional stimulus plans. >> they really did not re

the president's top economic adviser, lawrence summers, says the economic stimulus package is working. and summers has a new economic indicator to prove it, google searches. he says the number of google searches for the term "economic depression" reached a high earlier in the year. >> the anxiety could be measured in one of many ways. to take one modern indicator, google searches for the term "economic depression" were up fourfold from their baseline level and something similar was true of mainstream media references to economic depression. >> so, we move from the dichotomy from the real economy to the virtual society. number of searches for economic depression has fallen to what he termed normal levels, and summers says that proves the economy has stabilized. president obama ordered his cabinet secretaries to identify at least $100 million in additional spending cuts within 90 days. three months later, we are still waiting for details. today, white house press secretary robert gibbs said, quote, we'll release something in the coming days. meanwhile, the federal government is continui

host: lawrence yun, national association of realtors chief economist. thank you. guest: thank you. host: there is abuzz this morning about a new "vanity fair" piece of dell server pailin -- article about server oarah palin. what alaskas charismatic gov wants us to know about herself does not always jive. the author tracks the signs, political and personal, that palin was in big trouble. we will talk about this in just a moment. see you in a minute. >> during his travels next week, president obama is scheduled to meet with russian pres. medvedev. two panels look at the issues between u.s. and russia, including arms control. live coverage after "washington journal." also at 10:00 a.m., quinnipiac univ. releases the results of a new poll. healthcare is a topic of a town hall meeting this afternoon at northern virginia president obama community president obama will take questions from an audience, and also youtube users, facebook, and twitter. >> this holiday weekend on book tv, discovering an unfamiliar side of her nation's first president. with historian and author john ferling. join

. >> reporter: early this morning, lawrence and his family were ready to board a monorail at the magic kingdom, when they witnessed the horrendous crash. six people on both trains were checked over. >> it was kind of shook up after that. >> reporter: eyewitness crews obtained this exclusive video of the crash site. workers put up a black curtain to conceal the damage. the entire system was shut down after the crash. visitors were bussed between epcot center and magic kingdom. >> i just thank god, that we weren't on that train. i pray for that driver's family. >> that was ryan hughes reporting. disney has not commented except to say the safety of guests and workers is a drop priority. >>> up next, chaos, as the proposed president of honduras, tries to fly home to get his job back. >>> tonight's check on headlines around the world, begins in honduras. the president tried to get his old job back, by flying from venezuela to the honduran capital, but the plane was not given permission to land. soldiers battled protesters who had rallied at the airport. one person died. the plane traveled t

. >> cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is monitoring this developing story. he's joining us on the phone now from washington. chris, what's the latest on what you're hearing, how the pentagon is reacting to this video? >> fredricka, they are certainly monitoring the situation and the actual abduction is something they had been aware of for some time. we had an e-mail earlier from folks in the region. take a look now. people are talking publicly about the matter. he basically says we strongly condemn exploitation of a prisoner, that goes against international codes of conduct, and they talk about some of the ways in which they're going to be going after the people responsible for abducting this soldier. in the past week or so, they have been using a combination of the carrot and the stick, dropping pamphlets over parts of afghanistan. one pamphlet show ago soldier kicking in a door, saying if you do not return this soldier, we will hunt you down. another pamphlet with a soldier surrounded by children with his armed outstretched saying one of our guests is miss

he got security arouound h but he'll here, lawrence o'nnell. >>i've worked closy with our intelligence professionals and they are that -- professionals. and i do no believe thathe cia lied to congres i'm still waiting for spker pelosi to put up the fact or retract her atement and apologe. >> john boehner has the greatest taall year rod of anybody i've ever seen i am so jealous. >> you and i look like a box of ean ex. >> if i kn i was going to be in the mika set today, i wld have been inhe tanning salon all dayesterday, with boehner getting tanned up. >> lawrence o'donneljoins . keep your hands the table at all times. >> mike, you've neverat this close to a vy attractive young man before. is that what you'resaying? >> i think we're at ease enough sexually we ca sit withur sexual identity like this, ri >> can we g a segway going here? >> you were carrying onbout the cia yterday on "hardball" last night. carrying on, i was presiding over an adult discussion of the suect with the chairman of the house intelligence cmmittee and this is a lg traditio