there's nobody better at this than john and nobody knows this industry better than john. and he is a in a position where he presents it whether it is community colleges, if it's the best in california, school sleuth was wonderful. how to find a good school. with all the obvious things brought up, but it's things like how old were things on a bulletin board? how many cars are in the parking lot after 3:30 ask is that in depth kind of look, no blinders, out of the box. what matters is it's been there for years. and all the revenue by the way from "the influence of teachers" goes to learning matters. john -- this is not a book to link to your friends. this is a book you buy. this is a book where you encourage your friends to go on amazon.com and buy. you want to buy and not limpets all the revenues come all the royalties will go to learning matters. so that being said it is my incredible pleasure that i recognize my good friend and colleague john merrow. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much, josh. on behalf of learning matters, our small and energetic produ

john m. porter's cousin, thomas henry hives. he was a captain in morgan's command and he had actually heard -- i don't know how -- that these two fellows were in clark county looking for morgan. and he was out looking for these two. they were searching for one another and they find one another. , is is one of the most interesting human beings ever to come out of the civil war. he would be a captain in the ninth kentucky cavalry during the war with john m. porter. tom hines was captured in ohio with john hunt morgan and they would both be incarcerated in the ohio penitentiary and, as would mastermind the escape of john hunt morgan and six of his men out of the ohio country in november of 1863. then he would go to canada and from canada he was the architect of what became the northwest conspiracy, attempt by the confederate war department to cause an uprising in l.a. and indiana to free all the confederate prisoners of war in camp douglas and chicago and camp morgan and indianapolis and hopeful

john cornyn is quoted as saying they will come back. they are coming back. >> senator reid wouldn't talk to us, none of the other big spendingers. maybe they are embarrassed about their spending but i doubt it because super spending happens every day. i live in one of richest neighborhoods in the world. jerry seinfeld and alec baldwin live around here. the last thing we should get is free stuff from taxpayers. a few blocks to my apartment they are giving away bike helmets. local politicians got a federal grant to help them do this. >> if it's a big success? >> it's a tremendous success. >> john: it's dumb to do this but if you offer free stuff. the line went around the block. >> people can afford their own helmet but why not take advantage. >> why not, it's money flying around. i'll grab all i can. it has to come from someone, the entrepreneurs that create wealth. >> the stores down the street, it's not nice to them that are. >> give me a break. bureaucrats proudly told us they gave away 45,000 helmets. >> why is to take tax money to gi

this beginning john porter's career with john hunt morgan. it goes all the way through until june 1863 when he is captured with -- in a company with tom hines, tom hines isn't captured, but john porter is. and union patrol catches up with hines' company and this company is on an advanced scout from morgan. morgan's whole division is coming into kentucky in advance of crossing the ohio river and entering indiana and ohio where morgan is ultimately captured. but tom hines is captured there in near barge town, kentucky. and from there, he is sent to johnson island a prisoner of war depot at sandusky bay. he stays there for 19 months. 19 months that broke him down terribly. john porter was born in 1839, he'll die in 1844. the exposure to ice, snow, cold on lake erie and the privation probably broke him down to such a degree that he died young. and you see that a lot among prisoners of war. in all wars and but particularly in the civil war. there's another great story that porter speaks of. and this is a story that you don't find in any other memo

i'm john o'neill." and i explained to him, i'm from the white house, and i do terrorism, and i need some help. and i told him our story on the classified phone line, and he went into action. >> narrator: in 20 years, he'd chased a lot of bad guys, but nobody like ramzi yousef. >> yousef is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, very smart. getting him and incapacitating him was a significant public safety issue, and john o'neill recognized that, was not about to take no for an answer anywhere before he was taken into custody. ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> white house. >> o'neill put together an arrest team that managed to catch ramzi ahmed yousef in pakistan just before he moved into afghanistan, which would've been beyond our reach. it was a pretty intense couple of days, but it worked. >> narrator: for the next six years, o'neill and his agents would follow the bloody and complex trail from ramzi yousef to osama bin laden. >> the picture was still fuzzy-- i mean, it was by no m

john: jeff, you were there at this event. he's got to be both energetic and have conversations with his supporters, but he knows about these dark clouds. how did he navigate that? >> the speech we just heard was from ata, illinois, a town of about 800 people in rural illinois. it's in the quad city, iowa, media market and i think that's another reason for it because iowa is very important as a general election battleground. one thing i was struck by is he was, even from these friendly crowds, the questions he were getting were all gloom and dominant. a young college student stood up and said "i don't think i'll gel -- get a job." a real estate agent said, "i haven't been able to sell houses for a long time." he was trying to reassure them. with you after send -- spending several weeks at rene vents, the hope and confidence and optimism is on the republican side this time and the worry is on the democratic side. you talk to those voters who like obama overall, they are worried for his future and re-election. he was trying to s

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>> we take safety seriously, john. as the father of three teenagers i take autosafety seriously i suppose as a 6,000 pound navigator runs into a 3500 pound malibu, its tragic on moment for the chevy. but detroit is becoming cars that are -- is building cars that is safe. the ford focus, top marks on safety. they are safer cards and they are not coming at expense of fuel efficiencies and increasing gas mileage we can cut our oil consumption by four million barrels a day by 2030. that would wipe out our opec purchases. we need to do that. >> john: we use oil for lots of things. if we cut our use by a third for cars, it reduces 7%. >> four million barrels makes a lot of difference. we are using 19 million barrels a day. opec is about 5 of that. we could take a bite out of that >> john: mr. dean says one of the proponents it refuses to put anyone at risk. >> john: let mee him ask directly. the cars are smaller. 2,000 deaths a year. is that proof? >> not necessarily a smaller car that we're talking about. you look at the ch

>> is that for me or for john? >> i'll let you start. >> we got here because the financial markets collapsed in 2008 and because basically every big company now is trying to keep its own line of credit. they are being bankers to themselves. they are still not confident that the financial dynamics of this economy will be there in case of need. so they are sitting on their cash. they don't want to hire people. they don't want to take on the risk of hiring people in case they have to lose them again in six months time. so that was going to be the main drivers of job creation. there isn't anyone on the democratic side who seriously thinks that the public sector is going to get rid of 9% unemployment. it's a stop-gap measure. but what do we need for that to happen is for the private sector to say, yes, we think this is going to grow and i don't want to be on the wrong side of growth because i miss out. >> are we going to have that conversation? >> we're going to have a lot more conversation about this all fall. and that

joining us, as promised is john king, host of john king usa. also joining us is dan lothian and ali velshi. global editor at large for reuterss and david walker, former of the united states, heads up the comeback initiative. and also did the administration know this was coming and what exactly are they saying tonight on or off the record? >> they are at 1:30 this afternoon i'm told sent the analysis to the treasury department. and said that we were going to do this. let's do this. do it now. they call a $2 trillion mistake. the administration says when they pointed that out, we're going to change our treasury officials saying and other administration officials and s&p made its decision and in the market and when they rebutted the analysis, mr. chambers made his case of the administration's position and consider the source. president obama would be the first president in history to ever downgrade on his watch. they fought this and they lost. but their position is it's going to be a big mistake and s&p essentially put the train on the tracks. >>

and john galt disowned him. he damned him. at the climax of "atlas shrugged" when the world find it totally goes down the drain, the climactic scene is when the government, having expropriated dr. starr's work to create about -- create a weapon of mass destruction, it almost detonates, and a description of his death in the hands of, his science and certainly created, one of the moving passages in "atlas shrugged." alan greenspan is dr. robert statler. is the most damned because he knew better. it's one thing to make these the stakes out of ignorance or pure power lust like barney frank did. alan greenspan knew better. alan greenspan, for 30 years, was a close associate, an apostle of ayn rand. he was with ayn rand the day she died in 1982. best friends forever. he had no excuse. he knew better. when he first went to washington in 1976, as president gerald ford chairman of the council of economic advisers, ayn rand and her husband were right there in the white house as he was sworn in by gerald ford. why didn't ayn rand damn hi

john never said anything to me. actually he is the exact same way as when we met him as little boys. i've never seen him mad. >> you are describing unconditional, unconditional love earlier. now you are saying it is kind of an unconditional report. anybody else? going ahead and raise your hand. what is your question? >> is your dad still alive and have you reconciled with him? >> he passed away three years ago but before probably five years before he died she had a bout with cancer, beat the first, didn't beat the second, she and i began this process of coming back together and it was great. a lot of forgiveness and complexity but i don't know if you can move on to the person no matter what happens to do if there isn't some form of reconciling with your past that may not involved the person or the people who cause the problems or were a part of the problem. i was lucky enough to have it. there was one situation where i was -- it was the first cancer about he was in the hospital and had one of these complex surgery i

the overhead drawing shows that john and jean would lose a bedroom. the next one, the planning department requires 15-foot setback be done. why? because the former two bedrooms here would have to be reconfigured. this building would be under 70 square feet. one bedroom wall must be seven feet under the housing code and this room, one bedroom wall would have to be seven feet under the planning code. as a result, these two would be merged and what we have is two teenage kids of different sexes losing their privacy and there is nothing more important to any age than people -- teenage -- teenagers to have their privacy, boy and girls especially at that age. it results in a lossor a laundry room which is important to them and reduces the size of a bedroom. it is already small enough that nothing but a bed can fit in it. also they ask why the second floor of the living room has a double height space next to the open space, and that's simply because the living room has no natural light given it is the middle of the existing building. as for guidelines, you k

>> i'm with john. i think that eventually, the president's poll numbers will improve some but i do not see any hope for a bipartisan agreement especially if it hinges on republicans agreeing to some revenue increases. >> the white house would argue that even if he loses, as i think he will, the battle in congress over getting a debt deal, he'll win the large every war because he will seem as more reasonable in the public eye. chris: will he -- will we know what he's for at the end of the argument? >> chris, i don't know. chris: it would help if we knew what he was fighting for. >> we're now in an environment that is 100% political. i think the actual legislation is not going to happen but he will come back with policies and you will know what he's for. chris: stark difference between him and the republicans. >> whether it's tax reform or other issues. they're looking at the bill clinton 1996 re-election playbook. he can stand up for it and people will say, we know what you're for. chris: great round ta

that man very happy, john bay they ar boehner. when we come being about a, we'll watch the chavez workout. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> the tentative deal on the deficit will give president obama the chance to increase the debt limit, something he's done three times since taking office. it's a move just about every president who has had the chance to do it has done during his time in office. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends since the first federal debt limit was set in 1939, harry s. truman the only u.s. president not to raise the debt ce

so the questio is, chris, can john boehner get to that 120, 130 number? the words in the conference call are making the point of look, we don't want a job-killing and debt default. he is trying to bring in the idea that they have won, and this going to make the changes that they came to washington to pursue. it's going to be a real tough sell job, and no one knows how is it going to turn out. now, as far as timing, we know that both the senate democrats and republicans will meet tomorrow, and it is presumably out of the senate, and chuck todd said that the more republican senators that supports this makes it easier on john boehner to sell it to the conference, because if it comes out with 75 or 80 senators behind it and over 40 republicans or 35 republicans o whatnot, it will make it easier for boehner the say, look, the entire team over there is going forward with this and get on board, you know, don't let us own this type of default which would be very, very politically damaging, and quite frankly, chris, you know, with the president thanking the americ

so it was for john chapman. to go easy in this busy world and walk those woods and feel the sunlight on your skin and shine and the simple as johnny appleseed to me. that is what i have to say. i will be glad to take any questions anyone has and there will be some. i actually am going to throw out the first question. i have been somewhat criticized in print and perhaps rightly so for suggesting he was almost certainly in sane. does that strike those of you who know the story almost as well as i do as completely over the top? anyone want to venture an opinion on that? i am sorry. [inaudible] >> the impression we have of john is probably a lot like a lot of people in our lives that aren't normal or typical but at the same time operate in society and not certifiably insane but maybe instead someone who operates differently. and autistic person. >> that might have been the real problem. it is a word that i threw around too casually perhaps. it sold 500 copies. what am i going to do? live with that i think. we have a

lets's face it, folks, when people hear the name john huntsman, most people think john who? he's like that old "sports illustrated" faces in the crowd, you know? nobody really knows who he is. but he's finally landed himself some attention. because he's taken on the crazies in the republican field and further exposing his own party as more extreme than it's ever been before. his easiest target may be congresswoman misch i will bachmann because of her crazy idea of bringing gas prices to under $2 if she becomes president. >> i just don't know what world that comment would come from. you know, we live in the real world. it's grounded in reality. and gas prices just aren't going to rebound like that. >> huntsman was asked about governor rick perry's comments on evolution and global warming. >> the minute that the republican party becomes the party, the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. >> and whether he was asked if perry was unelectable, huntsman said. this. >> i think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the republican party, you make yourself unelectable. >>

>> john: it makes me and ben chavis capitalists. and capitalists indians achieve. >> your indians are thriving. our indians are working. >> the scott brothers build a company that now employs 16 people putting up power lines. they didn't get any government help. >> it made me drive twice as hard knowing that they wouldn't help us and all. it panned out pretty good for us. >> we just have always been hard workers. >> that's what that is? >> this lumbee tribe maker runs one of the biggest true val hardware companies in the nation. the lumbees are doing well. >> great survivors. great example of how you can continue to persist even under the absolutely the worst, the worst treatment that you could help. >> john: they divorced themselves from these government handouts. they have done well without. >> individuals have done well. >> john: exactly. individuals free of special government. a rae developer who you saw in the sacramento king. jack lowery an original owner of the cracker barrel restaurant or civil bullard who owns granel. >> we

. >> hello, i'm john kelly. let's find out the tgif forecast and check in with christina loren. >> we have fog out there, but you saw the picture of the bay bridge, the sun is already trying to break through. so we're not expecting as much fog as yesterday and the marine layer is not so deep that it's going to produce that drizzle. it's mostly staying to our south. you see the drizzle south of san jose and impacting places in monday at that ray. what's to come for the weekend, i think you'll like it. but first let's get a check of your traffic on a casual friday with mike. >> good morning, christine. we see an easier build to the commu but still there. highway 4, speeds below 30 getting towards antioch, and bay point, slowing there, as well. as well as the accident on i go nearbia valley road. we still have the power pole down in the area by the hospital. >> and developing news we're following this morning. at&t wireless dealing with service outages in parts of the bay area, as well as the sacramento area. an at

. >> good evening from washington, john boehner got 98% of what he wanted again today. the dow jones industrial average dropped 634 points today, it is the worst one-day point drop since december 2008. 98% of that drop would be 921 points, which, according to boehner's claim, are assignable to him and house republicans who say they got 98% of what they wanted in the deficit reduction deal, which preceded the sharp decline in the stock market that began last week. skiddish investors, fleeing stocks, rushed to safer investments, and, as is customary during a stock market collapse, they rushed to the safest investment in the world, united states treasury bonds. that's right, shares of the federal government's debt are still considered the safest investment in the world by experienced investors on the first trading day after standard & poor's took the unprecedented political action of downgrading treasury's long-term debt from aaa to aa-plus. the s&p downgrade was a purely political act taken by these two leaders of the confederacy of dunces known as standard & poor's. john

what robert welch did was he used the name of john pitch because john birch was the first cashty of world war 3. used his name to create the john birch society. what its interesting is one of the features of j. frank norris' work -- you see this throughout the book -- there was always a conspiracy against him. it was always this group or that group. it was in the ''20s, the mayor or the catholics in the town are against him, and then later john birch's name, name associated with norris, bought man who died before there was a john birch society, associated with a group that is known for their love of a good conspiracy. it was a fascinating story hiding in plain sight. i call it the most famous story you never heard but it was page one in america in the 1920s, and i was grateful i was able to dig it out and nobody had gotten to it before me. thank you very much. [applause] >> take a few of your questions if you have any. and love to talk with you. and then i'll be happy to sign a book for you. so raise your hand, and we have one over here. get the microphone over to you, sir. >> how did you

[laughter] >> michael, you spoke at johns wedding. you -- do you know that you top this to john, that as much as you say teataster life that you had chased his? >> i didn't really realize that. i didn't. i mean, i know he was impressed upon of was doing. i was promised my kid that i would never leave them. i'm 100% dedicated to them. you know, he really liked that. i was with them. i took some of the things that he used to do with his former small. fish, but, that's exactly what i do with them. we really are. you have to say yes. even my seven year-old, we fish. i took a lot of things he taught us on the smaller. they enjoy it. >> what he is saying is that he taught him things that made him a better father and then by seeing that he was such a good father he found the opportunity yourself. >> now i have my chance. state to end. some parenting book. >> before that happened you had also found an interesting alex. this book is out not so long. you were invited by a book club, as i understand it, in a prison. >> yes. that was the most --

>> i would ask john erpenbach that question. >> john, what do you think? >> i have a tremendous amount of respect for dale schultz. he's always been a guy who deals more so with issue as opposed to the party. he was majority leader for a while here at the capitol and he had his hands full with an extremely conservative caucus but he did well. he's a rational guy. he's a practical guy. so we'll see. >> but this would be a real shot over the bow, maybe a direct hit at organized labor, if this isn't successful tonight. fair statement? >> no, no. i don't think so. i really truly don't think so. if anything i think what it's done is it's re-energized organized labor. we saw that starting in february. organized labor is awake. but more importantly, the people who benefit indirectly from collective bargaining, the salaries that are set indirectly by collective bargaining, those are the people who have really woken up, and they understand that when you go after organized labor and you go after unions the way the governor has it's going to have an impact on them. >

i have a question. >> yeah. >> the decision that john f. kennedy made at the bay of pigs, do you think that resulted in his assassination or played a part in that decision? >> i think probably lee harvey oswald's mind it did. there's, of course, a question of whether fidel castro ordered it. lyndon johnson said castro knew kennedy wanted to kill him, so he wanted to kill kennedy. there was a lot of speculation that castro may have ordered this himself. castro denies it vehemently. we do know that oswald visited the mexican embassy -- i'm sorry, the cuban embassy shortly before the assassination and perhaps got some sort of signal or communication there. but what we know for sure is oswald, he was in the sow yet union when the -- soviet union when the bay of pigs happened and was infuriated by it and thought he was doing fidel castro a favor by going after john kennedy. so indirectly, yes, i do think the bay of pigs definitely leads to the assassination of kennedy. it may have had a more direct link, but that's very difficult, maybe impossib

>> i would ask john erpenbach that question. >> john, what do you think? >> i have a tremendous amount of respect for dale schultz. he's always been a guy who deals more so with issue as opposed to the party. he was majority leader for a while here at the capitol and he had his hands full with an extremely conservative caucus but he did well. he's a rational guy. he's a practical guy. so we'll see. >> but this would be a real shot over the bow, maybe a direct hit at organized labor, if this isn't successful tonight. fair statement? >> no, no. i don't think so. i really truly don't think so. if anything i think what it's done is it's re-energized organized labor. we saw that starting in february. organized labor is awake. but more importantly, the people who benefit indirectly from collective bargaining, the salaries that are set indirectly by collective bargaining, those are the people who have really woken up, and they understand that when you go after organized labor and you go after unions the way the governor has it's going to have an impact on them. >

>> a little bit, yes, john. what's funny, this session was like a sea saw on top of a roller coaster. and a lot of that volatility came after the fed's decision. we talked to some traders, they say what you ended up seeing was a relief rally that the fed finally acknowledged that the economy is weak. but it's going to go ahead and continue to give the economy support for reinvestments from previous investments. do you know it also says it's going to go ahead and keep interest rates near zero for another two years, that's what really got stocks going today. the bad news, of course, the central bank sharply downgrading its view of the economy for the third time this year. it said growth is considerably slower, but i don't think we needed the fed to tell us that, john. >> and on the point of the fed giving us specific dates through at least mid-2013 of keeping interest rates low, when they have the meetings they usually see for the foreseeable future. how unusual was it, you said it was reassuring for the fed to st

>> always ready. >> we're very pleased with john's progress. his background is challenging, to say the least. but he takes time and he's thinking things through. i've seen him take charge, take leadership and we are really hopeful that he's going to be one of our success stories. >> good job, y'all. >> success for madden is so close he can taste it. but two major hurdles still stand in the way. getting through his final release interview to get out of prison and passing the military test to enlist in the navy once he's out. >> i'm a little discouraged. i don't know if i will handle it right, but i will try my hardest. >> hurdle number one is just around the corner. >> have a seat right there, please. mr. madden, can you tell us what you have learned since you've been here? >> the group, more seriously this time. it's helped me out a lot. i'm learning to stop and think before i do anything and that was the biggest part that was getting me in trouble because i was hot-headed and i wasn't thinking about my actions before i did them. >> so what wer

i live immediately next door to jean and john. we completely support the design originally proposed by them. turned planning code they could have built 2521 feet into the rear -- 21 feet into the rear yard. now it seems they are being penalized. we understand the planning department said it would have approved additional building in the rear yard. we also understand while the planning department believes the size of the floor does not bother current adjacent neighbors, it could bother future occupants of the homes. we think this speculation is unfair to jean and john. the message they seem to be saying is it is very important to accommodate families' needs in this city. this is the kind of attitude that contributes to the city's reputation of making it hard for families in the city. please approve the plans. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm going to go ahead and read this. i live at 458 day street. i was raised in san francisco. i work for the san francisco fire department. i have experienced many families

. >> jon: john oliver. >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, an author. his new book is called turn right at machu picchu. rediscovering the lost city one step at a time. please welcome to the program mark adams. sir! nice to see you. thank you for joining us. >> a pleasure to be here. >> jon: i had no idea that the machu picchu was so... i guess controversial. that it needed to be that the gentleman who discovered it i guess was hiram bingham. >> he was a yale lecturer who found it just about 100 years ago exactly and caused a little controversy because he later took full credit for finding machu picchu and left out the fact that there were three families of farmers living up growing tomatoes among the ruins when he got there. he came back a year later. >> jon: do native people count? >> that is part of the controversy. >> jon: and you decided to retrace bingham's path to machu picchu. >> yes. he did a famous expedition in 1911 on which he was looking for the lost city of the incas which was this legendary city that many believe that a group of inca nobl

his name was john watson porter. a railroad man, a banker, and he showed up at john watson porter's house and this is in may of 1865, and john watson porter took him in and no sooner than john porter took up the quarters there three of his cousins show up all of them have been in morgan's command and all of whom had just surrendered at washington georgia at the tenth of may and these fellows edward claims, john hines and james hines and they all came from bowling green kentucky and so these four fellows after taking a while with jon porter's kunkel decided they would try to go home. they walked from madison georgia to atlanta, and of course atlanta had been burned, destroy. they go through atlanta and they managed to hire a wagon, a wagon from somewhere, and they take this wagon all the way to chattanooga, and at chattanooga they find they can hitch a ride on a freight train. they get on the freight train to nash phill. at national they get off the street train they are afraid they are going to get spotted by some oc

john vander promised not to be that kind of a speaker. but when a speaker loses a vote and the perception of power is power in washington, it is a weakened speakership. >> charlie cook said many house and senate members in the 2012, 2014, 2016 are going to lose their seats because congress has become a laughingstock over this. >> to pick up on what marks -- what mark said, john boehner -- the blandishments that worked in the past do not work anymore. you cannot do earmarks. what they worry about, some of these younger members, is a primary on their way. they are happy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because for them, it is a personal victory. >> who is in trouble? orrin hatch maybe? >> absolutely. >> that is the hornets' nest of john boehner's existence. freshman of south carolina who went into the house chappell and came out and said they had collectively agreed after seeking higher power and instructions, to oppose john boehner. >> south carolina has been here before. [inaudible] they are prepared to do it again. >> that was 1

>> they're equally big worries, john. despite the fact the president had an $800 billion stimulus fed is triple the money supply, three deficits of almost $5 trillion, the economy is dead in the water this. that argues for a stimulus of a reaganite stimulus or obama stimulus, but there's who more tools in the toolbox here. on the other side you have the debt deficit problem, which $10 trillion in deficits, which argues for austerity. spending cuts, taxations, so you've got two in total conflict. the president inherited aaron economy, john, that i think the only way this thing will go forward is through the old stagflation of the post-nixon era. >> eleanor? >> they've got to raise the debt ceiling even if it takes the president invoking the 14th amendment of the constitution and doing it under his own authority. they've got to do that because the consequences of that, the numbers you just put up on the screen, would look rosie compared to what the economy would look like if we defaults. we take the world's global economy w

there isn't, john. i mean, economic downturns are part of history. they happen. we had thought over the years that we had had the ability to make them shorter and shallower and the recession of 2008 showed us that that wasn't actually true. the economy is not science. for people out there wondering, saying you don't understand the economy, dave put it correctly. it's you. if you are going to spend more, if you go out to dinner, if you see your 401(k) going down and you make a decision you're not going on a trim or spep or spen something, it's the economy. the thing that makes people spend is the value of your home or savings or investments increasing or the value of your wage increasing, that's it. or you marry a rock star or rob a bank, that's the only way you get richer in society. we need those options in front of us, as for the woman that did that banner, it's american timi economy, right, dave? >> she did, right. >> absolutely she did. >> people looking for a victim, how does it affect their behavior, dave, when they're down like that? >> it does. instead of

and an hour after the vote, speaker john boehner was also notified. take a look at this. that is congresswoman gabrielle giffords, six months ago when she was shot in the head at point blank range and there were questions if she would survive and questions if she would ever recover to the point to return here at the house of representatives and look at smiling and hugging with her colleagues, and gloria borger a big vote, but a personal moment. >> i kept thinking after a rancorous few weeks and it was so great to celebrate something the triumph of the spirit of gabrielle giffords and seeing the members standing there to applaud their friend and welcoming her back. it was just a wonderful, wonderful moment. >> and to that point, david gergen, you know, the d eas hav been arguing with the rs and to see the entire house as this dramatic vote was finishing up, it was a giant surprise to most of them and pretty remarkable. >> oh, gabrielle giffords provided the most heartwarming moment we have had in months in washington and lifted our spirits just when we needed it and remind

thank you howard fineman and john heilman. hell of a comparison, i know. >>> elections '06, '08 and '10. americans are angry at everyone in office. whenever there's a wave, somebody will lose, and something will will. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> politico's reporting that senate majority leader harry reid has chosen three senate colleagues for the bipartisan super committee tasked with finding additional reductions. patty murray of washington state, and john kerry of massachusetts senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has pretty much promised none of the people he names to that super committee would even consider raising taxes. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." are we looking at another wave election where one party gets kicked in the butt and the other one wins? in 2006 democrats won more than 30 house seats and took over the united states senate. wave number one. in 2008, democrats grabbed another 20-plus house seats, seven more in the senate and took the white house of course with pres

>> of course, john. it's enormous! it's not just a new deal but the great society. >> is that identified by the size of the national debt? >> it's a welfare, warfare state. both are coming down! >> the defense of government patted wouldn't give up a seasoning. benefits he gets and most people feel the same way. >> i don't agree with that. >> like what, social security? medicare? medicaid? don't you think those are the third rails? >> don't you think it's a shame i'm paying for pallet's social security and medicare? >> that's the founding fathers did not -- the right to be sick and go bananupt. the health care intervention on the part of the government is a positive thing because the unfettered capitalist system wasn't working. icu! >> this was a landmark piece of legislation, the health care bill we passed was not perfect. >> president obama's $1 trillion health care law may not only be imperfect, but illegal, illegal becae unconstitutional. why? because of the individual mandate. under this mandate, which means obliga

orn lewis' -- john lewis' was the highlight of the day. roy wilkins who's the head of the naacp announced the news of w.e. duabuse's death in africa. remember this has been a long fight, he said. now, regardless of the fact that in his later year dr. dubois chose another path. it's convertible that at the dawn of the 20th century his was the voice to call you to gather today in this cause. there's a wave of applause that subsided into a referential silence. it's like moses said a woman. god had written that he should never enter the promised land. by the time that roy will kins finished his address the crowd was already tired for a long afternoon of speech-making. more marchers packed up toward the buses. several people left to go downtown in search of souvenirs. the crowd was dissolving when a. philip randolph introduced ms. mahalia jackson. at the mention of her name many in the jackson paused. she sang the two voices of a spiritual. then she closed her eyes for the third verse. i'm going to tell my lord when i get home. i'm going to tel

john harwood with cnbc and writes for the "new york times," and melissa a professor at tulane. thank you both for joining us. john, put it together, the economics the president faces in terms of what he can do about it? >> i'm not sure what we had can do, chris. he face twos problems in dealing with republicans. one, they want to take him down politically, and, two, they have a fundamentally different vision of the role of government, and they have a willingness to try to withstand political pressures most politicians you and i covered aren't willing to do that. they don't care too much about wall street or their leadership, and they are so resistant to tax increases, that they prevented john boehner from having the ability to describing that grand bargain with president obama and eastern this afternoon after the market dropped, eric cantor, house republican leader, put positive a letter, with all the tub beaux lance a lot of pressure on congress to compromise on tax increases on us, the republicans, to compromise on tax increases. i ask you to resist that pressure. that's what

why john f. kennedy ended up canceling the air strikes on the 16th because once people realized that this was not true, a charade, they realized, wait a minute, something is not right about this and they started looking at the americans for answers about what was going on. yeah, they were all marked. they were all marked to look like castro. there's somebody over here and i'll come to you in a second. yes. >> in your open remarks you referred to the fact that kennedy was concerned about provoking russia and by his actions in the bay of pigs invasion, do you go into that in the book? and what subsequently happened because, you know, four or five months later the berlin wall went up and i'm sure that was triggered by his weaknesses in the bay of pigs, eight months later vietnam exploded. that was all in consequence -- when they detected that he was what they interpreted to be weak, that triggered a lot of problems. >> and john kennedy knew that. he went to a summit in vienna in june, with khrushche

>> i think that's exactly right, john. and when you add to that, look, there has been a certain amount of strain particularly in the u.s./saudi relationship, because, of course, the king of saudi arabia and the saudi government did not think that the u.s. government should have supported the ouster of mubarak. and so there is some tensions that go to what -- how the u.s. hand egypt, how the u.s. has handled bahrain. there's a good level of mistrust between the remaining arab leaders and the u.s. administration, and i think they're unlikely both for their own reasons and the biellateral relationship also to make statements of support for u.s. policy that assad no longer has the legitimacy to lead. >> it's sad to see world bodies just words, when you watch these pictures and hear the stories. fran townsend, appreciate your report tonight. >>> ahead tonight a white house economic adviser says the u.s. economy could slip into recession. what should you be doing to protect your family ? >> and the u.s. government said it has di

so the question now becomes, chris, can john boehner get to that 120, 130 number? the words he's using on this conference call are really trying to make the point of, look, we don't want a job-killing default. he's trying to bring in this idea that they have won. this is going to make the changes they came to washington to pursue. it's going to be a real tough sell job. and no one knows how it's going to turn out. now as far as timing, we know that both the senate democrats and senate republicans are going to meet tomorrow. it's presumably going to get out of the senate. chuck todd made an excellent point. the more republican senators that support this makes it easier on john boehner to sell to his conference. it if it comes out with 75, 80, over 40 republicans or 45 republicans or whatnot it makes it easier for boehner to say, look, the entire team over there is going forward with this. get on board. you know, don't let us own this type of default which would be very, very politically damaging. and, quite frankly, chris, the president was thanking the american peo

the brother john died of tuberculosis. a lot of guilt when ellen charged and john son died. those two children, and we also have charlotte. another of his children, brought her life to of very high strong. confined to a mental institution. he lost that child in that fashion. that is saw the chance he. all this tragedy of the frenzy died. three years. really only his first memory was of his mother selling under a tree with him at her feet. second memory was this hysterical of the sub. don't come into is from. his mother died of an overdose of laudanum, mixture of opium mixed in with whatever else. she took too much, and will was interesting in she had just gone through a congregational must call one of these regular congregational events in which she was forced to be incredibly introspective. this will have been the 1830's. new england kaj aberrational setting. these events, people were forced to have a lot of terrible introspection. a few months after this event she took an overdose of laudanum. tear speculation, but maybe it was an overdose on marriage took too much on purp